Tora Quotes

#1. When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban out of Kandahar. And then we let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.

Wesley Clark

#2. I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.

Richard Patrick

#3. Health is a Lifestyle, not a Life Sentence.

Tora Cullip

#4. Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.

Hannah Anderson

#5. The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.

James Buchan

#6. I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.

Tora Berger

#7. The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or his Son to save us. We thought that Hapi would give us immortality if we flattered his vanity by praying to him.

Alice Moore Hubbard

#8. I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

Maajid Nawaz

#9. As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

John F. Kerry

#10. It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

Anton Chekhov

#11. My aunt always says that if you put your mind to it, you can do absolutely anything," Jake said. "Is that true?" "No," I said. "It's nonsense.

Lemony Snicket

#12. You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Derek Jacobi

#13. Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

H. L. Hunt

#14. Orthodoxy is, in a sense, halacha in a straitjacket. Having had to transform the Oral Tora into a new written one, we have become Karaites of this new Written Tora.

Eliezer Berkovits

#15. For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman

#16. Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

Daniel J. King

#17. It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

Michael Johnson

#18. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

John R.W. Stott

#19. Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

Matt Cameron

#20. Truth, justice ... I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie.
But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.

Judy Blundell

#21. Birthday should be considered as a unit of measurement to measure our present status toward success!

Mohith Agadi

#22. A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Kurt Eichenwald

#23. When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Tora Berger

#24. Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?

Alan Colmes

#25. I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old.

Tora Berger