Mannishly Quotes

#1. I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy. - Author: Karl Marlantes

#2. To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead. - Author: Dan B. Allender

#3. Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#4. The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga. - Author: Jim Wright

#5. There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression. - Author: Marilyn Hacker

#6. Speech is like an arrow; it is necessary to aim it by way of reflection before uttering anything. - Author: Burhan Al-Din Al-Zarnuji

#7. The best thing about my apartment is that it looks over Oscar de la Renta and all the shops. - Author: Nina Garcia

#8. In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These - Author: Louise Erdrich

#9. The sky isn't the limit in my world, Karissa. There is no limit. You want it? You got it. Whatever it is. - Author: J.M. Darhower

#10. I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector. - Author: John F. Kerry

#11. Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. - Author: Willard Scott

#12. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. - Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

#13. For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools? - Author: Erasmus

#14. It is not violence that best overcomes hate
nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. - Author: Charlotte Bronte

#15. America is a meritocracy. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke