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if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, tw... GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t... GEORGE S. PATTON JR. A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t... GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile. ROBERT JORDAN I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ... LARRY WILMORE I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowe... STEPHEN FRY I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would hav... ANATOL LIEVEN A soft noise, almost a sob. Ash rose, hesitated, as if fighting the compulsion to obey. "I will alwa... JULIE KAGAWA If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were wh... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, ... ANONYMOUS I really wasn't happy to see him even try to go up and dunk it. If he had missed that he, could have... TOM PENDERS I would rather win it than lose the championship but they deserve it this year. Definitely, he deser... KIMI RAIKKONEN Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. OSCAR LEVANT He just has some of the best stick skills I've ever seen with a long pole. He has a motor that won't... DONALD MURPHY I didn't bathe him because I was too afraid he would slip out of my hands or his belly button would ... MIRANDA JULY He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long a... JOHN SELDEN When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They p... JACK FERGUSON Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of ... THOMAS MANN A woman should say: ''Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me ... BARBARA CARTLAND A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me be... BARBARA CARTLAND [Pitching coach] Randy St. Claire and I both think that we would like to start him off in Potomac, h... JIM BOWDEN There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treat... ISOTONU ACHOR He has just come home, so exhausted that he feels soluble, as if he is evaporating into the air, so ... HANYA YANAGIHARA Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I He is meeting prosecutors as a witness. I accompanied him and left him there, because as a witness h... GIAMPAOLO ZANCAN He's got major decisions to make. I would never try to ask him or persuade him to do anything that h... ANDY PETTITTE I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will ... JANE AUSTEN He was going along pretty good there. I was hoping that we would continue with him this last week, b... AL BORGES Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become wh... RALPH WALDO EMERSON And this is how things go. If you are too miserly, he will spend too much because that will become j... OSHO I don't think coach is going anywhere. He's kept all his promises about everything he's ever said to... JACK HUNT I seriously put him in the same league as Alec Guinness or Peter Sellers. If he had gone into film h... BARRY CRYER Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man. SHERILYN FENN A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little g... SAMUEL JOHNSON I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had wo... MADELINE MILLER People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'W... ARTHUR MARX If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am go... AUGUSTUS OWSLEY STANLEY Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a... HUGH PRATHER He loves football so much and I believe if that window is left open at all for him to play, he will ... BERT BROWN Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre... NIGEL HAMILTON I have met him (the British hostage) and told him not to worry as he will be released. ABDUL HAKIMI I have met him (the British hostage) and told him not to worry as he will be released. ABDUL LATIF HAKIMI I'm convinced that Agassi is committed and excited to challenge for the biggest titles in the tennis... JUSTIN GIMELSTOB He wasn't as fresh for his best event and didn't swim as well as he's probably capable of, ... becau... NORT THORNTON The thing I told Rod is that I would have hated to have to try and coach him. He just didn't listen,... DARREN PERRY I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for... WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f... WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself / And as to him who comes to you striving hard... QURAN I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. ... MARY HARRIS JONES Mike is coming in as a running back, but he will help out the team wherever he can. He is hard to ta... BRONCO MENDENHALL I learned very much from him. He was a man of great integrity. If he told you something you could ba... CLAYTON DOWNING The priority is to keep Steven and build a winning team around him. As long as he wants to stay, we ... RICK PARRY I knew that they would probably go to him (Walker) because he is their best shooter. I leaped as hig... MARCUS MORRISON Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he wi... STEPHEN R. COVEY Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you search... OSCAR WILDE A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl... SAMUEL JOHNSON "I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him.
He has created him in his own image... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he lov... RAINN WILSON He's talented, but he approaches every drill as it if was his last, ... Add to that he is an unbelie... LORENZO ROMAR
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EISENHOWER A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things d... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER There is no victory at bargain basement prices. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objectiv... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a ... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to d... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so m... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last on... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good fo... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for Ame... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvatio... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care w... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate l... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get o... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. ... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon o... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to l... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned an... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her cit... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The sergeant is the Army. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER