"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."

-- William Westmoreland

#Adequate Quotes #Captains Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me.”
“Finally I'm really happy with the way I'm playing again after a couple of frustrating years.”
“You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.”
“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Source : Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.
“There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will”
“I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.”
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
“When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times - tragically he died of leukemia at a very young age. He talked about how we can have an opportunity to live a lifetime in a moment, in a day, in a month, in a year - when you're confronted with the finite reality of your own existence, all these moments become lifetimes.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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