Top 22 Blackwater Quotes
#1. Celebrity Retrieval? I've never heard of them."
"They're a kind of private Blackwater.
Laura Castoro
#2. I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.
Neil Marshall
#3. The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.
Shashi Tharoor
#4. Blackwater is a company whose business depends on war and conflict to thrive. It operates in a demand-based industry where corporate profits are intimately linked to an escalation of violence. That
Jeremy Scahill
#5. Blackwater had won $1 billion in "diplomatic security" contracts through the State Department alone.81
Jeremy Scahill
#6. Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.
Robert Bateman
#7. In Haven, old houses didn't settle. They carried a life of their own, and Blackwater farm was no exception. This was a house that would never be a home. The best they could hope for would be to co-exist with the ghosts of the past.
- The Silent Twin
Caroline Mitchell
#8. (Hadrian Blackwater while poisoned) Gill the fish ... rest is best ... time is now ... it feels so good to ...
Michael J. Sullivan
#9. Hadrian reeked of death. It wasn't the sort of stench others could smell or that water could wash, but it lingered on him like sweat-saturated pores after a long night of drinking.
Michael J. Sullivan
#10. The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven.
James Conaway
#11. She was not going to ruin a good dress for a pot of drooling, wall-staring, imbecile grass. And that was that.
Brandon Sanderson
#12. Man is a relational being. And if his first, fundamental relationship is disturbed - his relationship with God - then nothing else can be truly in order.
Pope Benedict XVI
#13. I need you to know that I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be here when you come home. There will always be an us.
Krista Ritchie
#14. The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.
Chris Rock
#15. Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
Paul Dickson
#16. A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A piece that split you lip.
Patrick Ness
#18. You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty - done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes. A half-baked book is a half-birthed child. It aborts, is put on life support; reviewers line the hall to pull the plug.
Chila Woychik
#19. The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Benjamin Franklin
#20. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place.
Ada Palmer
#21. I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
Simon Cowell
#22. I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
Christina Ricci
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