Gunboats Quotes

#1. Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#2. The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

George Carlin

#4. Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#5. Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen

May Swenson

#6. That's when it occurs to me that maybe the rocks are weighing him down so he doesn't rise into the air.

Jandy Nelson

#7. Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

Brian Tracy

#8. The worst things weren't outside of you.

Cynthia Voigt

#9. The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.

Mary Allsebrook

#10. Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.

David Foster

#11. When it comes to your looks, the only option in this world that matters is yours.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#12. I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Nicole Luiken

#13. We're living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We'd rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

Frank Schaeffer

#14. The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

Jerry West

#15. The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.

Hesba Stretton

#16. Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

William Gibson

#17. Dragons are a manifestation of things we fear. More often than not, those fears prove to be just as daunting and just as imaginary.

Richelle E. Goodrich