James Stockdale Quotes

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

James Stockdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1923 - July 5, 2005

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TimePainGivingYouBloodDouble

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

Jim Brown

TruthTruth IsTryingChangesGet

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Joey Ramone

NowSoundUsJustFoundationsTakes

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Andrew Mason

InnovationMomentMindChallenges

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

John Ruskin

GreatEffortPersonDoneWithout

I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them.

Rob Kardashian

ChangeBusinessMenDressMindYou

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

Rodrigo Duterte

ShoesSocksCheapWearEven

All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.

Austin Scott

ObamacareShouldExceptionAtrocities

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

Ava DuVernay

MeTellInterestStories

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

Powers Boothe

LivingOutHeadAgainstGoingMake

I don't talk about politics much. I don't care for it.

Shelly Burch

PoliticsCareTalkMuchAbout

I've had it all my life - people thinking I was too small or not fast enough, not strong enough.

Timothy F. Cahill

LifePeopleSmallStrongThinking

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

Tim Cope

PatienceWorldThinkGrowGrow Up

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