Max Cleland Quotes

#1. Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Max Cleland

#2. Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they accomplished, why am I cold.

Sylvia Plath

#3. we must use only the force that is necessary and no more.

J.K. Rowling

#4. John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

Max Cleland

#5. Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Max Cleland

#6. I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious.

Max Cleland

#7. Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

Max Cleland

#8. When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.

David Crosby

#9. Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

Max Cleland

#10. We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

Max Cleland

#11. There are books written to be read.
There are books written to be sold.
The first ones have the soul and lessons you need.
The second ones are just plain, empty, and cold.

Alexandr Iscenco

#12. The present day composer refuses to die.

Edgard Varese

#13. I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Tig Notaro

#14. Control is only an illusion to calm yourself into believing things will go a certain way. give up control, let life lead and you will find a rich discovery.

Jennifer Probst

#15. Don't try to use God to achieve your purpose. Rather, aim to achieve His

Sunday Adelaja

#16. There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

James Baldwin

#17. He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.

Colleen Coble

#18. Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.'

Fay Wray