"I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war..."

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Source : "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 559), 1965.

Curtis LeMay

#Attitude Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.”
“Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life. We will not feel incapable of doing what we are called to do or need to do. We will be strengthened, and our lives will be filled with peace and joy.We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significanceâ€”and if it is, the Lord will help us. But we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow His direction.”
“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.48, Canongate Books
“We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.”

Source : "A Wealth of Human Fossils Could Soon Be Destroyed". Interview with Stefan Aust and Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2005.
“Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?”
“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
“On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob] Dylan, to them, is the harbinger of the low-culture mob; the latest in an unending number of final straws, or the thin end of a wedge that never seems to get thicker.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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