Top 34 Ralph Peters Quotes
#1. Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it's utterly glorious.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk
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#2. You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#3. The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
Ralph Peters
#4. Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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#5. If at first you don't succeed, put your feet up and drink wine.
Me
#6. Nina Simone had such an androgynous voice; the first time I listened to her I thought it was a man, and I'm sure a lot of people listening to me think I'm a woman. Her voice is kinda like the poster child for me.
Shamir
#7. We [the U.S.] think nothing ... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
Ralph Peters
#8. I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.'
Jennie Garth
#9. If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon
#10. When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
Ralph Peters
#11. In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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#13. Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
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#14. Through the kids, I had started to understand more about love and what it was to truly give love and receive it. I learned that there are certain things it's not okay to accept, and that was making me feel powerful and strong.
Jennifer Lopez
#15. Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
Ralph Peters
#16. A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.
Ralph Peters
#17. I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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#18. The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.
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#19. There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).
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#20. A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.
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#21. Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.
Miles Davis
#22. The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.
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#23. If you shed all your inhibitions, your anger, your fears, and all your bitterness towards others, you will be receptive and you can recognize the signals when you come across your soulmate.
Girdhar Joshi
#24. Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters
#25. I'll never understand how really bad guys can communicate with just a series of small signals like that. I always have to explain everything in agonizing detail to get my minions to do my bidding. Maybe I have faulty minions.
Mary Elizabeth Summer
#26. We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
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#27. If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.
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#28. The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
Ralph Peters
#29. The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
Ralph Peters
#30. We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.
Ralph Peters
#31. Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all,
Tom Robbins
#32. Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
Ralph Peters
#33. I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
Michael Landon
#34. We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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