Top 100 Bowden Quotes
#1. I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.
Anna Freeman
#2. THE BACK DOOR, what was left of it, scraped open again, and they could hear boot steps on the stoop, and Lucas said, "This is it, Grace. Who's going after Bowden? Give me something that'll give you a break." She shook her head. "Fuck you.
John Sandford
#3. This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it.
Robert Kurson
#4. Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals
and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.
Jasper Fforde
#5. My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.
Jeff Lindsay
#6. If something did happen to Bowden, how would that affect your chances?" Lucas asked. "What a rotten, cynical question to ask. I'm proud of you," Henderson said.
John Sandford
#7. Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!
Hines Ward
#8. bit: that there was a possibility of a conspiracy aimed at Michaela Bowden.
John Sandford
#9. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
Bobby Bowden
#10. For a country to have a great writer is like having another government,
Mark Bowden
#11. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
Anna Freeman
#12. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Bobby Bowden
#14. No one gets left behind, you know that.
Mark Bowden
#15. His only cause, ultimately, was himself.
Mark Bowden
#16. And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#17. Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
Bobby Bowden
#18. I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.
Bobby Bowden
#19. But the first thing that we have to do is to say, I walk towards the tunnel, and I'm on my own, and I'm not afraid. And I have no regrets.
Jonathan Bowden
#20. Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
Bobby Bowden
#21. I could have reached him in three quick strides and slipped my blade into his spine before he had the chance to fart.
Oliver Bowden
#22. I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.
Katrina Bowden
#23. If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.
Bobby Bowden
#24. He who gets the best players usually wins.
Bobby Bowden
#25. It is harder to defend a computer than to attack it.
Mark Bowden
#26. I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.
Katrina Bowden
#27. There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
Bobby Bowden
#28. I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Bobby Bowden
#29. Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.
Mark Bowden
#30. The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall - a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!
Mark Bowden
#31. Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,
Mark Bowden
#32. Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.
Mark Bowden
#33. My mom always told me, "Whatever happens, will happen" or "Whatever is supposed to happen, will happen." I've learned you'll know when you find the right person. When I found the right person, I knew it immediately.
Katrina Bowden
#34. That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
Bobby Bowden
#35. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
Bobby Bowden
#36. Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.
Mark Bowden
#37. I don't trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don't believe in white wine; I insist on color.
Charles Bowden
#38. Mogadishu was like the postapocalyptic world of Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies, a world ruled by roving gangs of armed thugs. They were here to rout the worst of the warlords and restore sanity and civilization.
Mark Bowden
#39. There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.
Charles Bowden
#40. Now that I could not go back I was not sure, after all, that I wished to go forward. It was a miserable sensation.
Anna Freeman
#41. To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Bobby Bowden
#42. Why should some poor animal die just because it tastes good to us?
Oliver Bowden
#43. Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more.
Oliver Bowden
#44. 60 Minutes, the most watched and most respected news program on the tube.
Mark Bowden
#45. Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. "There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid.
Mark Bowden
#46. What I am about to set forth is our system for gaining power over the people of the world. We have two things that will help us achieve this: we have ourselves, with our knowledge, intentions, scheming and actions, and we have the unawareness of the mass of the people.
Paul Bowden
#47. I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it won't be restored by a lone Assassin. I am Ezio Auditore Da Firenze. This is my Brotherhood.
Oliver Bowden
#48. I will tell you how this ends, Jarl Grimnar. It ends with you on your knees, as the first High King of Fenris to bare his throat to a foe's blade. Refuse, and suffer the excommunication of your Chapter and the Exterminatus of your miserable home world
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#49. Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.
Sandra Bowden
#51. All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
Bobby Bowden
#52. Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.
Katrina Bowden
#53. These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.
Mark Bowden
#54. Our Creed does not command us to be free. It commands us to be wise.
Oliver Bowden
#55. But modern malware is aimed less at exploiting individual computers than exploiting the Internet. A botnet-creating worm doesn't want to harm your computer; it wants to use it.
Mark Bowden
#56. Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."
"That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#57. The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy.
Mark Bowden
#58. Don't think I have any intention of caressing your cheek and saying I was wrong," he said softly as I watched the life ebb out of him. "I will not weep and wonder what might have been. I'm sure you understand.
Oliver Bowden
#59. I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player.
Jim Bowden
#60. The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.
Mark Bowden
#61. The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Bobby Bowden
#62. They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America ... they knew each other better than most brothers did.
Mark Bowden
#64. Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.
Bobby Bowden
#66. If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.
Bobby Bowden
#67. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Oliver Bowden
#68. I am already dead inside. But I will finish what I have to do.
Oliver Bowden
#69. If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.
Anna Freeman
#70. Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.
Bobby Bowden
#71. Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full.
Oliver Bowden
#72. It's incredible. The more we learn about the world, the less we seem to know.
Oliver Bowden
#73. General Maza, the survivor of two grotesque assassination attempts, put it bluntly: 'This country won't be put right as long as Escobar is alive.
Mark Bowden
#74. I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.
Charles Bowden
#75. the world is a tapestry of many colours and patterns. A just leader would celebrate this, not seek to unravel it.
Oliver Bowden
#76. When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.
Terry Bowden
#77. I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
Bobby Bowden
#78. It's not in the history books because if people knew the truth they wouldn't be able to go about their day to day lives, they would just be too freaked out, and what is left of society would crumble.
M.D. Bowden
#79. It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Mark Bowden
#80. It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.
Katrina Bowden
#81. We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.
Tommy Bowden
#82. It is one thing to have a mind that is open. It is quite another to have one so open that the birds can shit into it.
Oliver Bowden
#83. The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden
#85. It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.
Oliver Bowden
#87. I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
Bobby Bowden
#88. remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount.
Mark Bowden
#89. I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it.
Oliver Bowden
#90. He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.
Bobby Bowden
#91. Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I ... that I ... that I fought hard.
Mark Bowden
#92. Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
Bobby Bowden
#93. For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#94. I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.
Bobby Bowden
#95. My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.
Bowden Wyatt
#96. Anyone who uses Windows on their home computer is familiar with routine security updates, which Microsoft issues on the second Tuesday of each month. In the Tribe it has become known as "Patch Tuesday.
Mark Bowden
#97. I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.
Charles Bowden
#98. You take what you can get and hold on tight to it- by any means necessary. After all you only live once.
Oliver Bowden
#100. Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine' -the Wisdom of our Creed is revealed through these words - 'We work in the Dark, to serve the Light. We are Assassins.'
Machiavelli
Oliver Bowden
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