"And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship."

-- John R. Allen

#Real Quotes #Police Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.”

Source : Pascal Boyer (2001). “Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors”, Random House (UK)
“There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.”
“I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.”
“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
“For 13 years I have been teaching my daughter and talking to her to have faith in her God, to have faith in her family, to trust herself, to be in control and in charge of her body. Same thing for my son. Hopefully, you keep that in mind as you make decisions in life, whether it's consent, whether it's drinking, whether it's running naked across the quad in college, whatever it is!”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.”

Source : "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.
“A true champion can adapt to anything.”

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

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