Top 16 General Colin Powell Quotes

#1. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.

Josh Kaufman

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#2. Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

Kitty Kelley

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#3. I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Beth Orton

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#4. The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

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#5. Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Clayton Christensen

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#6. See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

Melina Marchetta

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#7. I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

Gordon Brown

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#8. Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.

Ken Kalfus

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#9. Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Lord Chesterfield

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#10. I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.

Wendy Liebman

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#11. The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

James Howard Kunstler

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#12. I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

Shaquille O'Neal

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#13. The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin

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#14. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

Kerry Patterson

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#15. Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

Lucy Grealy

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#16. Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Samuel Rutherford

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