Edward Smith Quotes
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .
Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."
Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.
Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.
The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.
I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.
Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.
Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.
Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.
How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?
...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.
Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.