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Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: August 22, 1934 - December 27, 2012

Topics

Life Good Loss Mission You Try

We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.

Live Age Art Political Rhetoric

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

Success Stand Reach Someone You Way

The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'

Me Hotel Bad Cards Nice Worst

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

Sad Day America You Said Mean

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.

Flowers Seed Think Universal Like

The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

Work Humor Dirty Way Different Few

I'm surrounded by all these strong women - my publicist, my manager, and my wife - and sometimes I think that women are more evolved than men, and they are able to process a heartache better.

Women Men Wife Strong Think Better

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

I Am Fun Me Win American Friends

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

World Book Bible Done More Harm

Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United States, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the deepening Syrian civil war to the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin.

Fight War Security President Out

I feel like a foster kid that's been in the system for a long time, and then at 16, somebody adopted them and said, 'You can go to college, and you ain't got to pay no student loans.' I feel happy. I feel accepted after all these years of blood, sweat, and tears.

Tiffany Haddish

Time Happy College Tears Feel You

I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure.

Story Think Short Say Storytelling

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