Army Drill Sergeant Quotes

#1. William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#2. You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

Christopher Nolan

#3. Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well ... and I had to come back and bow four times.

Frederic Chopin

#4. It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

Taylor Swift

#6. I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

Janina Gavankar

#7. How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do all of these things for you. How? Because it is lacking in nothing.

Frederick Lenz

#8. King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#9. Today the campaign for world government lives on mainly among kooks and science fiction fans.

Steven Pinker

#10. What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge,

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

John Bowring

#12. It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.

John G. Bennett

#13. When we go adventuring with Jesus, He takes us places we never dreamed we could go, gives us ideas we never thought we could have, and gives us friends that last forever.

Mark Batterson

#14. I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

Dharma Mittra