Yingling Quotes & Sayings

I said that if she won I would tell all of you something I learned about her this summer. Jackie Woodson is allergic to watermelon. Just let that sink in your minds. I said, 'You have to put that in a book.' And she said, 'You put that in a book.' And I said, 'I'm only writing a book about a black girl who's allergic to watermelon if you, Cornel West, Toni Morrison and Barack Obama say, 'This guy's OK. — Lemony Snicket

An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures. — Craig M. Mullaney

If you like Battlestar Galactica ... you're probably a huge nerd. — Stephen Colbert

My aim in life is never to be skinny. — Adele

The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions. — Paul Yingling

The Maddoxes could sense trouble. At least it seemed that way, because whenever there was a fight, they had either started it, or finished it. Usually both. — Jamie McGuire

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. — Sakyong Mipham

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born. — Michael Moore

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — Paul Yingling

I don't keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don't travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost. — Alex Garland

On this ship, my word is fucking law! Captain Josiah Trenchard. UWSS Might of Fortitude. — Jonathon Fletcher

A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. — Paul Yingling

No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team? — Bo Schembechler