Marine Chesty Puller Quotes

#1. Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

Ben Elliot

#2. No great city has an abundance of parking.

Yves Engler

#3. Graydon: "Where are those files you wanted me to look at? I can never figure out the new system on the shared drive, and you promised you'd show me. Call me back when you can."
No, son. You can figure it out on your own. I have faith in you.

Thea Harrison

#4. So what you're really saying is that you were attacked by ninjas.

K.L. Penington

#5. Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

Daniel Dennett

#6. Is there anything love couldn't make us do?
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Karen Marie Moning

#7. One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Mary Catherwood

#8. We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

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#9. There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Chesty Puller

#10. So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

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#11. Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.

Paul Blackwell

#12. Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Commonly, love isn't defined in the sense that it supposed to be. I find it often to be misunderstood. Love is like a principle, flowing out and in like the seasons. It's an attraction not just built by personal attachment, but by one's very presence.

Lionel Suggs

#14. If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

Domhnall Gleeson

#15. They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

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#16. Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.

Elian Gonzalez

#17. In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

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#18. Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

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#19. We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Bob Ross

#20. It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

Johnny Bench

#21. Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

Chesty Puller