Volitive Subjunctive Quotes & Sayings

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me. — Scott Thompson

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die. — Hampton Sides

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help? — Buzz Aldrin

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.
(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I asked none
why life ends in ways uncertain. — Suman Pokhrel

Cry as much as you want to, but just make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again. — Wiz Khalifa

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. — Eddie Campbell

I said it three times actually. — Edward Heath

If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children's books is: If I were a child would I like it That's very egotistical but it's the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn't do a book if I didn't want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share. — Tomi Ungerer

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. — Sebastian Thrun

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving. — Douglas Wilson