Ashton Carter Quotes

#1. New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.

Jimmy Fallon

#2. I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.

Joe Biden

#3. Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to us about in school that would one day drift down soft as snow.

Junot Diaz

#4. Michelangelo wrote in a poem years later: Around my door, I find huge piles of shit since those who gorge on grapes or take a purge could find no better place to void their guts in.

Alexander Lee

#5. For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

Virginia Woolf

#6. We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#7. Each action contains its opposite. Each action contains the shadow-trace of the choice not made, the seeds of infinite variation. Each choice, once made, trips contingencies, alternatives; each choice breeds its own universe.

Hilary Mantel

#8. Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

Marc Andreessen

#9. You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy.

Herman Wouk

#10. It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well.

Ashton Carter

#11. Anyone who is not in love with the life itself can never find real happiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Night falls, he thought, and now my war begins.

George R R Martin

#13. I lean into him, because I'm cold and he's always warm. And because I like to remind him that I'm not afraid of him.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

Ashton Carter

#15. That's the most beautiful thing in the world. What's in you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.

Billy Squier

#17. We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

Ashton Carter

#18. With cold hands he massaged her right foot, his fingertips digging into all the right places to make her groan.
"Feel good?" he asked.
"You can't imagine. You have until midnight to stop."
He chuckled. "Why midnight?"
"Because from then until daylight you can work on the other foot.

Carolyn Brown

#19. A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one

Priyansh Shah