Airborne Paratrooper Quotes

#1. Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.

John Stuart Mill

#3. I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

Helen McCrory

#4. If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.

Isadora Duncan

#5. Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

William J. Clinton

#6. What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Jonathan Kozol

#7. Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

#8. At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more.

Howard Jacobson

#9. I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

Dana Spiotta

#10. In early May 1968, RT Lion was joined by a wiry, tough-as-nails little paratrooper who introduced himself as Lou "Jake Three Zero" DeSeta. DeSeta had served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade for 13 months and had participated in the fabled Battle of Dak To.

John Meyer

#11. I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

Lee Marvin

#12. Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

Rob Sheffield

#13. The bank of lockers was down, the airlock door up. Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.

James S.A. Corey

#14. The Support Group, of course, was depressing as hell.

John Green