PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack… — John Trevor Godfrey Copy Share Image
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably… We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the night sky, threw… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger,… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
When I watch Dan Rather explaining how America is going to be attacking, where we're going to attack, what routes we're taking,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of… — C. Terry Warner Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter… — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
“Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think,… — Michael DeLong Copy Share Image
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather;… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
There's the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you'll maybe never ship. There's a… — Michael Morhaime Copy Share Image
When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image