Pentagon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,
-- Bill Ayers

#Pentagon
Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.
-- Cindy Sheehan

#Cliffs #Fiscal Cliff #Pentagon
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,
-- Jeremiah

#New York #Eye #Pentagon
We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella
-- Omar Torrijos

#Umbrella #Pentagon #Protective
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
-- Peter Singer

#Conventions #Pentagon #Said
As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon
-- Sibel Edmonds

#People #Levels #Pentagon
The Pentagon's lost entire countries.
-- Jack O'Neill

#Country #Lost #Pentagon
The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.
-- David Swanson

#People #United States #Pentagon

To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising.Â But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly â€˜sawn in half,â€™ where sprinklers give off â€˜little wet speeches.â€™Â What else?Â It's brilliantly instead and odd.
Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.
The world is a pile of grunge.
Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.
Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.
The selection of topics for intensive research has often been a function of serendipitous opportunity. My forays into philosophy of education were largely in response to the prompting of friends and my dissatisfaction with much of what - at that time - passed for philosophy of education. I cannot honestly say that there has been either continuity or an overarching schema, though I suspect ,or at least hope, that someone who looked at my oeuvre might conclude that there was a philosophically integrated author.
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.