"The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position."

-- Howard E. Wasdin

#Giving Quotes #Guy Quotes #Credit Quotes

“To the confusion of our enemies.”
“We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.”

Source : "When To Call Attacks 'Terrorism'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.
“A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.”
“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.”

Source : Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press
“The FBI has a very clear policy. They don't expose victims.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press
“Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.”
“Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.”

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