David Petraeus Quotes

The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.

David Petraeus

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PeopleIdeasStrategyRecognition

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

Joan Blades

PeopleBookMeaningfulDifferent

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.

Michael Hirst

CulturePeopleChristianWriteGet

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

Amy Klobuchar

AmericaNowThingsStuffMaking

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

Steve Harvey

New YorkPeopleThinkNewInsight

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports performance. I felt that men were dressed really well both technically and visually, and women were almost like an afterthought.

Stella McCartney

WomenSportsMenPerformanceDressed

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

Simon Baker

WorkTimeDoingYouRepetitionDown

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

Mika Waltari

LifeHopePastI AmMy LifeKings

Let's face it: when it comes to denying access to abortion care and reproductive rights, especially for low-income women with limited resources, there's no limit to how far some are willing to go.

Mike Quigley

WomenFaceCareAbortionGoLimit

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Mike Singletary

WinGameYouWantWhateverGoing

I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'

Louis Armstrong

WomanKissMeLipsSayHere

What I can control is how I'll perform when I got to a team.

Jordan Rodgers

TeamControlI CanGotHowPerform

Don't think I'm always nice. I know that's how I've been cast... If they want me to be mean, I can step up to the plate more easily than I would like to admit, as my children will tell you.

Dianne Wiest

ChildrenStepMeThinkYouI Can

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