Halsey Quotes

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

It doesn't matter how many private jets you take, how much money you make, how famous you get, keep putting in the hours.

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Example is better than precept.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.