Top 100 R Lee Quotes
#1. I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
R. Lee Ermey
#2. There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.
Lee R. Raymond
#3. Take courage. You do not yet see your own abilities because you have never been tested. You have never demonstrated to yourself or anyone all that you can do. Put your fears aside and trust that you can succeed in the challenges that lie ahead. - King Hercalon IV, Former King of Oomaldee
L.R.W. Lee
#4. One may not be able to trade in gratitude as a currency, but gratitude is the currency of true wealth. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#5. Certainty shuts down possibilities and keeps us small.
L.R.W. Lee
#6. It's no mystery, Just look at the history, Brave and valiant, strong and true, The victors wear royal blue!
L.R.W. Lee
#7. Hope is good to have," Murgull said after a moment. "But hope does not lift a tree about to crush your mate, or bring meat to a starving belly. It warms a cold heart and it soothes a worried brain, but what use is that?
R. Lee Smith
#8. How'd you like to sleep between dragons?
L.R.W. Lee
#9. Zach stole my stuff!" "No, I didn't!" "It was here before I went to the bathroom and now it's gone!" Andy reached over and cuffed the boy. "That will be quite enough," Mrs. Crabtree intervened. "Andy, go to the principal's office. Now.
L.R.W. Lee
#10. I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
R. Lee Ermey
#11. And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The
R. Lee Smith
#12. If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no narrative. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#13. Please don't say any more, you're scaring me. - Andy Smithson
L.R.W. Lee
#14. Soul competency is not the voice of a dean celebrating the latest lesbian at his divinity school; it is the voice of R. G. Lee thundering 'Payday Someday!
Russell D. Moore
#15. It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
Lee R. Raymond
#16. The world is filled with fools like S'kot, and worse, with the fools who let them act as wardens over them. They deserve each other. I don't care what they think of me and neither should you.
R. Lee Smith
#17. Don't make fun of me," Lan snapped. "I'm illiterate, not stupid! I know there's no B in subtle!
R. Lee Smith
#18. Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#19. A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!
R. Lee Ermey
#20. Imogenia's temper flared. "I was to become queen when you died, Father! He will pay," she snarled. "Honey," the king objected, "I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, but not forgiving someone hurts you, not the one you hate.
L.R.W. Lee
#21. You make time for what is important to you. - Glaucin
L.R.W. Lee
#22. Why do you care for them?
"I think it's because I feel loved. I feel like they understand me." - Andy Smithson
L.R.W. Lee
#23. But once that question popped out there, it couldn't be ignored. You couldn't put toothpaste back in the tube; once you'd seen Waldo, you might as well throw the book away.
R. Lee Smith
#24. I don't know humans, but I know fools. And I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell them not to.
R. Lee Smith
#25. I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.
Grace Lee Boggs
#26. Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#27. What is the purpose of video games if not to train you in the skills you will need to survive? - King Hercalon V
L.R.W. Lee
#28. There is no night, however dark and filled with woe, that is not followed by dawn.
R. Lee Smith
#29. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
#30. We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.
Lee R. Raymond
#31. In the land you come from, you call us your conscience. In the land of Oomaldee, they call us innerus. Both consciences and innerus hail from the same species of innerbeings; we've always had a symbiotic relationship with humans.
L.R.W. Lee
#32. America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
R. Lee Ermey
#33. Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
M.J. Rose
#34. The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey
#35. Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
R. Lee Ermey
#36. Imagination must be allowed to run free in our subconscious mind and when ready, it reveals its ideals to us in our conscious state.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#37. So you're Merlin the Magician? We studied you in school last year." I had no idea the guy was so wacky. "Oh no, Merlin was my bwother." Mermin smiled. "Made quite a name for himself in your world," he chuckled.
L.R.W. Lee
#38. Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
Lee R. Raymond
#39. You must be relieved that your friend saved you,
L.R.W. Lee
#40. In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
R. Lee Ermey
#41. The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.
Lee Haney
#42. Because you told me the truth, even when you thought it was something I did not want to hear. That is how I know how much you love me. I do not need to be told.
R. Lee Smith
#44. I would be irresponsible if I sat back and did nothing while they are being oppressed." "I know you're right, dear. I'm just concerned for our family.
L.R.W. Lee
#45. That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
R. Lee Ermey
#46. I strive for authenticity even though it brings with it vulnerability and the inevitable judgment of others.
L.R.W. Lee
#47. A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
Lee R. Raymond
#49. The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
Lee R. Raymond
#50. I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
R. Lee Ermey
#51. It is a wife's duty and pleasure to lessen her husband's burdens." "Says who, lizardman?" "Prophet Lashraq, as written in Sheul's true Word." "You mean a man wrote it." "But
R. Lee Smith
#52. I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.
Lee R. Raymond
#53. Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#54. Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
R. Lee Ermey
#55. For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
R. Lee Ermey
#57. We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey
#58. I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.
Lee R. Raymond
#59. I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.
Amy Lee
#60. Are you wondering yet why I'm telling you all this?" "Yes," said Olivia. "Very much." "It's to tell you that fate is seldom found in the first place you look for it.
R. Lee Smith
#61. You're not crazy. And yes, cow farts chase the fog away. The only problem is the smell.
L.R.W. Lee
#62. To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.
L.R.W. Lee
#63. Give it a minute or two for the weaction to begin.
L.R.W. Lee
#64. The luckiest people are the hardest working people. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#65. Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
#66. Women are like handfuls of sand. They all rub up under your scales now and then, but the finest ones do put a polish on a man.
R. Lee Smith
#67. Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
R. Lee Ermey
#68. In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.
William R. Looney III
#69. Fate is like a storm. You can let it bend you, or you can make it break you. One way or the other, the storm always has its way. Now our storm is beginning, Olivia.
R. Lee Smith
#71. In any disagreement, I believe both parties are 50% wrong. Taking responsibility for your part fixes most issues.
L.R.W. Lee
#73. I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey
#74. The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
R. Lee Ermey
#75. Hey, watch it! You almost hit me in the head!
L.R.W. Lee
#76. Wasting another's time is serious business for they will never get that time back. Ever.
L.R.W. Lee
#77. It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
Lee R. Raymond
#78. I've found that replacing one thing for another only means you don't yet know where the glitches are.
L.R.W. Lee
#79. Remember when you told your sister how scared you were of monsters under your bed? Hah. Hah! She scared you good when she hid under there and jumped out when you got up to go pee after the lights were turned off that night!
L.R.W. Lee
#80. Why demand ye of me where the land of Oomaldee lies? Did they do the same of C.S. Lewis and his Narnia?
L.R.W. Lee
#81. Fear of being wrong paralyzes people. Get over it! If you're wrong, invent a new narrative and move on. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#82. Horace, we've had a complaint that the music was playing too loudly in the Waiting Area," one board member announced as Mr. Brutish showed them into the board room and directed them to a row of seats lining the front wall. "The soul music?" a male spirit clarified, clearly irritated.
L.R.W. Lee
#83. It's one slice of shit-cake after another with me, isn't it? Why did you marry me?"
"God gave you to me."
"Did you keep the receipt?"
- Amber and Meoraq
R. Lee Smith
#84. I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
Coco Lee
#85. Strange, how the world could move on even when it had been shaken to its foundations.
R. Lee Smith
#86. The sign at the door was written with a backward R, to make it look Russian, which caused a minor echo of panic. Was it a reference to Merchenko? No, surely Westwood knew the difference between Russia and Ukraine. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor?
Lee Child
#87. Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.
R. Lee Ermey
#88. I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
R. Lee Ermey
#89. The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.
R. Lee Wrights
#90. Andy had to accept that the sword was missing. He thought back to where they had been, trying desperately to determine where he might have lost it. "Did you have it after we ate lunch?" Alden questioned at last. "Could it have fallen out of your backpack when you put it down?
L.R.W. Lee
#91. I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
R. Lee Ermey
#92. When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey
#95. You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey
#97. Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.
L.R.W. Lee
#98. Rules are there so people don't have to think. Don't follow the rules!!!
L.R.W. Lee
#99. I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
R. Lee Ermey
#100. In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond
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