Advises The President Quotes

#1. In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.

Robert M. Gates

#2. There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.

Gretchen Reynolds

#3. Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Small wonder that President Obama advises us to look forward, not backward - a convenient doctrine for those who hold the clubs. Those who are beaten by them tend to see the world differently, much to our annoyance.

Noam Chomsky

#5. I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.

Tommy Wallach

#7. It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch ... the private life is just gone.

Alexander Skarsgard

#9. how to wear a red cord tied around my left wrist to keep away the ones who only saw you as a single step, rather than a destination.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

Kenneth Eade

#11. I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

Derek Landy

#12. It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.

Saladin

#13. Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday

Avril Lavigne

#14. I want to see a good miracle. I want to see a man with one
leg, and then I want to see the other leg grow out.

Robert G. Ingersoll