Creighton Abrams Quotes

#1. For people who have ... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Casey Affleck

#2. For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

Joan Jett

#3. You need to leave, Scar.
Yes. She should probably leave.
She didn't.

Chelsea Fine

#4. It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

#5. The perfect plan is to have none.

Marty Rubin

#6. While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Creighton Abrams

#7. You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Creighton Abrams

#8. Utopians ... consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

Thomas Steven Molnar

#9. Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

Alice Sebold

#10. It is never very crowded at the front.

Creighton Abrams

#11. When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Creighton Abrams

#12. They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Creighton Abrams

#13. Support Imagination. Read a book.

Robbi Sommers Bryant

#14. Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

Dave Obey

#15. I ... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

#16. Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

#17. Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Bernard Meltzer

#18. There was this professional hockey player that I liked. I imagined him watching at the parade and falling in love with me. It didn't occur to me that he probably wasn't interested in twelve-year-olds.

Heather O'Neill