Top 15 General David Petraeus Quotes
#1. The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.
Bill O'Reilly
#2. General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.
Michael Hastings
#3. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#5. I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
Bryce Wilson
#6. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#7. We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.
Dutch Meyer
#9. Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
Jami Attenberg
#10. Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#11. For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it sinful to expect another day. Now every day is another step in life.
Seneca.
#12. Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.
Jim Talent
#13. I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
Nadine Gordimer
#14. Tina tipped the open urn and watched the heavier pieces of ash fall directly below the cliff into the thorny kiawe bushes. Then the wind swirled, carrying the lightest ashes back towards her, covering her hair and face.
Kim Hornsby
#15. Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.
Angela Merkel
