"Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops."

-- Colin Powell

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Marine Quotes

“Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.”
“I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"”
“Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.”
“I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.”
“Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.”
“It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.”

Source : Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

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