FastSaying

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.


Jared Diamond

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication...
JARED DIAMOND I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of cons...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to ...
HARRY REID I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to...
RICHARD RUMBOLD We talked with Native Americans whose elders passed down oral history for thousands of years, and th...
JOHN MCCAIN I never could believe that Providence
had sent a few men into the world,
ready booted and ...
RICHARD RUMBOLD Wells Fargo is committed to helping Native Americans achieve the dream of homeownership. We're proud...
MICHAEL ELLIOTT Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the a...
NOAM CHOMSKY Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?
J.D. ROBB I think in our lifetime there is a probability that one of these weapons is going to go off in New Y...
EVAN THOMAS And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by t...
DANA ROHRABACHER Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger,...
RICK RIORDAN Those that ride on chariots, and those that have no chariots, those that are mounted, and those that...
ATHARVA VEDA The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban ...
BULENT ECEVIT A few moments ago, he stopped a truck full of National Guard troops ... and said, 'Point your weapon...
BARBARA STARR You can be distracted by all the facts and figure on a lab report. But you always should look at the...
KYLE HAIN True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter ...
RICHARD ARMITAGE I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to...
RICHARD RUMBOLD In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials ...
JEFF GREENFIELD I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certaint...
HANS BLIX They had no weaknesses that we could find. They have a lot of weapons, send in fresh bodies and keep...
JEAN ROISE In my dream, the eagle was showing me how life for Native Americans used to be and some things that ...
GEORGIA PEREZ They were going for weight rather than cut on this stone. Visually, it only faces up like a .80-poin...
CATHERINE LEE We are there peacefully. We are there unarmed and it will remain that way. We will not break the ord...
DAWN SMITH He is being accused of delivering raw materials necessary to build Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons...
FRED TEEVEN In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting i...
JESSE JACKSON In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will b...
WINONA LADUKE It used to be that people had stone floors because they shared living space with animals.
ELLEN PARIS Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, an...
EDWARD GREY She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life wit...
RAVINDRA SHUKLA It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can...
WILLIAM BOOTH It has been passed down in many texts of old and by the word of mouth; that no matter the strength o...
IMANIA MARGRIA I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar w...
ADAM BEACH Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive th...
BEAU BRIDGES We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons.
ANDREW MACK I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat do...
JACK PRELUTSKY It's so hard that it takes hundreds of volunteers and a few dozen staff to host 10,000 or 15,000 men...
STEVE CHAVIS Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the is...
AARON NEVILLE In my career [the PC] is the defining product of the time. Just about the time we could have ridden ...
ANDY GROVE While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could...
HIRAM RHODES REVELS In the wake of the Patriot Act, during the second administration of George W., you made a series of ...
MAGGIE NELSON Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing t...
ISOTONU ACHOR There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of ...
ELON MUSK As a defensive measure all of the officers had drawn service weapons and aimed at the individual whi...
BILL SADLER Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.
ÓSCAR ARIAS Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservatio...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizin...
DAVID HERBERT DONALD We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce ...
WALTER CRONKITE India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the American...
SERGIO TRONCOSO Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast coul...
FRED ALLVINE In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the ...
MARTIN JACQUES So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Cli...
EDDIE IZZARD Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bo...
SIMON CAMERON We shall arm ourselves, and in America, the only weapon that counts is the vote. Be prepared to defe...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ [•] Saddam Hussein cannot use chemical or biological weapons himself. He has to use his chain of c...
DONALD RUMSFELD Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confro...
CHRISTOPHER DODD I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose...
MARIA V. SNYDER I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning; we had just about decided that the man w...
JAMES HERRIOT Steelhead and other native fish have had thousands of years to adapt to flooding. Not only can they ...
STAN GREGORY If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While ...
SALIL TRIPATHI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The two groups had been involved in previous fighting because of a long time feud. Troops have stric...
MAJOR GAMAL HAYUDINI I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and hum...
MONTEL WILLIAMS Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West ...
JARED DIAMOND I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d...
RORY FREEDMAN We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
HERNAN CORTES We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
HERNANDO CORTEZ In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movi...
CASEY AFFLECK We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are lo...
DON DELILLO When Morrigan and Brighid created Aerric, he had no need for emotions, he only needed to be a great ...
BRYNN MYERS Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that...
BOB WILLIAMS I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates t...
BEAU BRIDGES There was an almost divine quality to American power; it was merciless in its practice, flawless in ...
ANTHONY SHADID It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ...
TED CRUZ I think the semifinal match showed just how much heart and dedication Jared has. But you have to giv...
MATT ARMSTRONG No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whi...
JAMES W. LOEWEN It remains a slap in the face to all Native Americans and needs to be retired along with other image...
CINDY MARTIN Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all ...
JARED DIAMOND Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome o...
ARUNDHATI ROY The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call i...
WINONA LADUKE Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure
LEMONY SNICKET We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style ...
DAVID AGUILAR There are only a few teams in the league that win those championships. We're not the only ones that ...
BOBBY JOHNSON A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
CHINESE PROVERB Of the tens of thousands of pages, only literally a handful have ever been seen, and only a very few...
ISAAC GEWIRTZ We had an organization headed by Mexican drug traffickers who specifically targeted the Wind River r...
JEFFREY SWEETIN Given the obvious sensitivities, we could not accept involvement of Indian military on our side for ...
FOREIGN MINISTRY The chemical and biological (weapons), there is no ambiguity. They are able to produce those weapons...
RICHARD BUTLER [In Washington, thousands of people marched in remembrance of the attacks and in tribute to troops f...
DONALD RUMSFELD If any of those animals had escaped, we could have had a different ending, ... By dumping Reggie in ...
JANICE HAHN Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...
ANAIS NIN Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and ...
CHARLES KOCH The employee wasn't stealing. Over 10 years, he had opportunities to take thousands and thousands of...
JAMES JOHNSTON Derek Coleman was terrific. He hit quite a few highly contested shots. Some were real backbreakers. ...
BARCLAY RADEBAUGH There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
JARED DIAMOND

More Jared Diamond

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...
JARED DIAMOND All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use o...
JARED DIAMOND Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox p...
JARED DIAMOND Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we h...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to European...
JARED DIAMOND The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different conti...
JARED DIAMOND No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in...
JARED DIAMOND [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values t...
JARED DIAMOND Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all ...
JARED DIAMOND Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West ...
JARED DIAMOND Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, co...
JARED DIAMOND I personally am not conscious of my accent.
JARED DIAMOND Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tri...
JARED DIAMOND Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tri...
JARED DIAMOND The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
JARED DIAMOND Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern socie...
JARED DIAMOND Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,00...
JARED DIAMOND I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w...
JARED DIAMOND The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in...
JARED DIAMOND AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ...
JARED DIAMOND In modern times, Australia was the sole continent still inhabited only by hunter-gatherers... Native...
JARED DIAMOND Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated contro...
JARED DIAMOND Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world'...
JARED DIAMOND Easter Island collapsed in not just an epidemic of civil war but cannibalism. Of all the collapses o...
JARED DIAMOND I read that a false alarm of a tsunami in Hawaii would cost about $68 million.
JARED DIAMOND Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate respo...
JARED DIAMOND I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND Toen de bewoners van Paaseiland in de problemen kwamen, konden ze nergens heen, was er niemand bij w...
JARED DIAMOND Zo is het gegaan met de Indiaanse bevolking van San Nicolas-eiland, voor de kust van Los Angeles, di...
JARED DIAMOND ...the Viking expansion is a good example of what is termed an auto-catalytic process. In chemistry ...
JARED DIAMOND the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu concluded that Europeans and Christianity posed a threat to the stability...
JARED DIAMOND society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the...
JARED DIAMOND the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values tha...
JARED DIAMOND The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for t...
JARED DIAMOND All these adoptions of European styles make it obvious that the Greenlanders paid very close attenti...
JARED DIAMOND As on Easter Island and at Chaco Canyon, Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by polit...
JARED DIAMOND Almost everywhere else in the world, my archaeologist friends have an uphill struggle to convince go...
JARED DIAMOND a society’s fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.
JARED DIAMOND Montana would have been better off in the long run if it had never mined copper at all but had just ...
JARED DIAMOND Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in po...
JARED DIAMOND Así pues, tanto las sociedades como los grupos humanos más pequeños pueden tomar decisiones catas...
JARED DIAMOND I have often asked myself, "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while h...
JARED DIAMOND (On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)

Within six weeks, an estima...
JARED DIAMOND ...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
JARED DIAMOND For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrast...
JARED DIAMOND In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, spro...
JARED DIAMOND Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Islan...
JARED DIAMOND Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...
JARED DIAMOND People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the wor...
JARED DIAMOND History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those...
JARED DIAMOND Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societi...
JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into...
JARED DIAMOND [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fana...
JARED DIAMOND Differences between the Old and New Worlds in domesticated plants,especially in large-seeded cereals...
JARED DIAMOND Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western so...
JARED DIAMOND Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
JARED DIAMOND Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ...
JARED DIAMOND If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ...
JARED DIAMOND The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
JARED DIAMOND Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea...
JARED DIAMOND Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasm...
JARED DIAMOND With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placin...
JARED DIAMOND What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't ...
JARED DIAMOND Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...
JARED DIAMOND The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by...
JARED DIAMOND AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ...
JARED DIAMOND If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environ...
JARED DIAMOND The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication...
JARED DIAMOND Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-h...
JARED DIAMOND The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ...
JARED DIAMOND Technology has to be invented or adopted.
JARED DIAMOND Guns, Germs and Steel
JARED DIAMOND why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
JARED DIAMOND In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...
JARED DIAMOND Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
JARED DIAMOND To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...
JARED DIAMOND Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
JARED DIAMOND Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
JARED DIAMOND Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and i...
JARED DIAMOND Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
JARED DIAMOND The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w...
JARED DIAMOND Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
NEIL DIAMOND Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look...
DUSTIN DIAMOND An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile
AL DIAMOND If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it
AL DIAMOND In America we believe in Life, Liberty - and the pursuit
AL DIAMOND A penny saved is a penny wasted
AL DIAMOND Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
DIAMOND SUTRA You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple,...
HARVEY DIAMOND Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.
DUSTIN DIAMOND Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and ...
BOB DIAMOND The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like...
DUSTIN DIAMOND It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there w...
NEIL DIAMOND The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotli...
NEIL DIAMOND I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follo...
DUSTIN DIAMOND Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I wr...
NEIL DIAMOND I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expect...
NEIL DIAMOND You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the...
NEIL DIAMOND Some are born who never need them,
Others still who never read them, signs.
NEIL DIAMOND I thought love was more or less a giving thing.
Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
NEIL DIAMOND 'I am,' I said
To no one there,
And no one heard at all.
NEIL DIAMOND Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
NEIL DIAMOND Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
NEIL DIAMOND I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a f...
NEIL DIAMOND I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab...
NEIL DIAMOND I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It ha...
NEIL DIAMOND Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y...
JIM DIAMOND They are going to pull out every trick in the book to get themselves re-elected. Beware of legislato...
RUSS DIAMOND We believe it was critical that these technology and policy resources be designed in tandem. Togethe...
CAROL DIAMOND To have a world-class tight-head in your squad is a huge asset, not only for his playing ability but...
STEVE DIAMOND Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they...
NEIL DIAMOND Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recordi...
JIM DIAMOND I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
DUSTIN DIAMOND When we went for the pictures, we knew that this was going to be the first and only time that we wer...
AMANDA DIAMOND We had taken tons of pictures of Hailey ourselves, but they really weren't very good.
AMANDA DIAMOND It makes her real. We knew when we left the hospital that Hailey was going to die. And all you have ...
AMANDA DIAMOND It is an agreement that I believe is fair.
JAMES DIAMOND It's dangerous for both attorneys to have a wild card who thinks you can disregard the law.
JAMES DIAMOND Experienced trial attorneys tend to rely on instinct when picking a jury. You get an idea of the kin...
JAMES DIAMOND We have people who have served in local and county offices and school boards. They are serious candi...
RUSS DIAMOND We're in the middle of vetting potential candidates.
RUSS DIAMOND Lawmakers should run, they should run fast and not look back. They should realize that things have c...
RUSS DIAMOND I believe this might just be never-ending.
RUSS DIAMOND It's been over a month now, and the voter outrage is still going strong.
RUSS DIAMOND The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.
RUSS DIAMOND Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very fe...
RUSS DIAMOND This is the last chance for those who are truly dedicated to changing government in Pennsylvania. On...
RUSS DIAMOND This has caused consternation over our candidates publicly and in the press. People have questioned ...
RUSS DIAMOND It takes courage to overthrow your government.
RUSS DIAMOND It's easy to run with no opponents.
RUSS DIAMOND In Westmoreland and Fayette counties, we'll have a lot of candidates. In a couple of races, we might...
RUSS DIAMOND It's a different world in Pennsylvania, and anything can happen.
RUSS DIAMOND When there?s competition, the cream rises to the top. Pennsylvania is tired of the same old sour mil...
RUSS DIAMOND I can do more good doing what I?m doing right now. Besides, I?m having too much fun. This is great. ...
RUSS DIAMOND Don?t be fooled by politicians whose only goal is self-preservation.
RUSS DIAMOND Pennsylvania is tired of villains. We need heroes. I'm proud to bring you some of those heroes today...
RUSS DIAMOND Pennsylvania is tired of villains. We need heroes. These people are truly my heroes. They are dedica...
RUSS DIAMOND There are some races where we will introduce more than one candidate. In these races, we believe eac...
RUSS DIAMOND I just want to be with my family and that's it, so it makes sense.
MICHAEL DIAMOND When we market this product, the way we approach it (is that) the ignition interlock is the best saf...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moment...
MICHAEL DIAMOND Intuitively, she sensed Leonardo’s gaze on her, and she caught sight of him near the entrance to t...
DELANEY DIAMOND That was out of line.”
“No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she f...
DELANEY DIAMOND When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my ...
NEIL DIAMOND Some days are diamonds Some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes ...
NEIL DIAMOND They didn't actually think it was going to be achievable, because they were so frightened by the vas...
WILLIAM DIAMOND All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songw...
NEIL DIAMOND In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us...
BOB DIAMOND They never made them to this scale. We made them much higher, much wider, so that the client and the...
WILLIAM DIAMOND I've done a lot of Internet research and read a lot of books about oils. It's my personal thing,
HARVEY DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ...
NEIL DIAMOND He's really likable and sincere, and he's very easy to be with. He certainly wasn't easygoing in the...
NEIL DIAMOND Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming t...
NEIL DIAMOND You are the sun, ... I am the moon.
NEIL DIAMOND All of which I agreed to, with the exception of playing on the songs while singing, ... We butted he...
NEIL DIAMOND We're happy that you're here and that you remember us, ... Remember Me.
NEIL DIAMOND I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ...
NEIL DIAMOND the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its ...
NEIL DIAMOND I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I want...
NEIL DIAMOND the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
NEIL DIAMOND As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'
NEIL DIAMOND Of course I liked what Johnny did with 'Solitary Man,'
NEIL DIAMOND That's show business,
NEIL DIAMOND It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber.
RUSS DIAMOND Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.
JAMES DIAMOND Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to ...
NEIL DIAMOND You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give t...
NEIL DIAMOND I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
NEIL DIAMOND Be as a page that aches for a word/ Which speaks on a theme that is timeless.
NEIL DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND "I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," sa...
NEIL DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND