Frank Knox Quotes

#1. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

John Ruskin

#2. Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

George R R Martin

#3. It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

Frank Knox

#4. You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you've found life. I'm no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are 'yours' and which are 'mine.' It's past sorting out.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Frank Knox

#6. I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Geena Davis

#7. The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#8. We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Frank Knox

#9. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

Frank Knox

#10. Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Frank Knox

#11. I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

#12. I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

Mark Harmon

#13. If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

Frank Knox

#14. Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

Frank Knox

#15. I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Frank Knox

#16. 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Junot Diaz

#17. God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Knox

#18. One day the keys will unlock the pathways of mysteries

Elena Carpenter

#19. I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows ... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Pam Gems

#20. No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

Frank Knox

#21. We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.

Pope Francis

#22. The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Charles Peguy

#23. When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

Denis Leary

#25. Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

Mary Catherine Bateson