Torpedoed Quotes

#1. The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.

Tom Peters

#2. No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents.

Smedley Butler

#3. John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

Kevin Rudd

#4. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.

Erik Larson

#5. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. When I wrote "Win," it only took about eight months, but eight months of sheer pain and suffering because every phrase that's in there - and there are about 130 specific linguistic recommendations - I had to test every one to make sure that it worked.

Frank Luntz

#7. This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.

Orson Scott Card

#8. Spirit is a tangible substance.

Toba Beta

#9. He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-'
'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.

Toni Morrison

#10. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.

Frank E. Peretti

#12. There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

Kathy Acker

#13. The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

Kevin J. Anderson

#14. Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

John C. Maxwell

#15. That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.

Michael Thomas Ford

#16. My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

Avril Lavigne

#17. Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Dilma Rousseff

#18. The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.

Rene Descartes