Quotes About The Bay Of Pigs Invasion

#1. To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

J. William Fulbright

#2. But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

John Sayles

#3. Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Kitty Kelley

#4. In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

George Will

#5. The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#6. Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Felix Frankfurter

#7. My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Carolyn Mackler

#8. One wall of the living room was almost entirely made up of tall windows, and the now-dark winter night seemed to enter the room without permission.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

Douglas Adams

#11. My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

David Soul

#12. In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.

Elyn R. Saks

#13. So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

E. Howard Hunt

#14. Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Brian Tracy

#15. I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.

Lisa Gerrard

#16. You have the grace to chase your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The perfect of yesterday / today, may not last till tomorrow.
And for not being perfect yesterday / today, doesn't mean that tomorrow will be the same.

Ezekiel Mosoatsi