Fierceness famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

  • Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

  • One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

  • I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality.

  • I never liked group work in school.

  • Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

  • There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

  • Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

  • Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

  • I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.