"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."

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Source : Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899

George Dewey

#Fire Quotes #Navy Quotes #May Quotes

“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社
“A busy life is a wasted life.”

Source : Francis Crick (2008). “What Mad Pursuit”, p.108, Hachette UK
“We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.”
“I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.”
“Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.
“When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves we're healing.”
“If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!”

Source : Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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