Robert Pape Quotes

#1. Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn't sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.

J.B. McGee

#2. You could not have done it better than Hughes.

Robert Pape

#3. One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

Patricia Marx

#4. I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

Robert Pape

#6. The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

Arno C. Gaebelein

#7. People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

Elizabeth Berg

#8. There's a 30% chance that it's already raining.

Karen Smith

#9. Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

Horace Bushnell

#10. The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.

Robert Pape

#11. Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Robert M. Parker Jr.