"The Navy is a master plan designed by……" — Herman Wouk
"The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens,…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
— Karen Armstrong
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
— Julian Assange
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution,…
— Glenn Beck
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
— Omar N. Bradley
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights…
— William J. Brennan
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