Absolutes Quote by Chester W. Nimitz Download Open image “Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.” — Chester W. Nimitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutes Granted Military Sea Sometimes Taken Taken for granted
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that.… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future. — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image