C. F. Powell Quotes
Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.
It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.
Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.
With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.
People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.
If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
