"There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy."

-- Robert M. Gates

#Military Quotes #Boots Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.”
“It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.”
“The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.”
“Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.”
“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?”
“I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.”
“I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.”
“I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.”

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