David Petraeus Quotes

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

David Petraeus

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GoodDownWashingtonReasonBigger

White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

Jess Row

PeopleColorDoingTryingChoose

God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.

Max Lucado

DailyGodYouWillNeedWeekly

I like being outside and seeing a lot of new things.

Max Charles

New ThingsSeeingNewOutsideThings

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Stephen Root

LoveCharacterCareerNewsSayMuch

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

Stan Musial

GreatMenBaseballGameThinkFeel

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Sun Tzu

LeadershipWaitEnemyWillPrudent

In life, if people need help, then we should try and help them out.

Mo Farah

LifePeopleHelpTryNeedOut

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

Judith Tarr

WomenMenWorldImportantMatter

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Jonathan Carroll

WorkMemoriesWritingInteresting

We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.

Peter Maurer

CityTheatreTransformationBecome

I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn't speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.

Pete Burns

HusbandSpeakRestaurantYearLook

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

Tuppence Middleton

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