Marine Quotes - Page 16

• The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.

  Mary McCarthy

  Coffee, Gone, Today

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.

  Daniel James, Jr.

  Race, Black, Problem

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• The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

  Ed Royce

  Japan, Issues, Ongoing

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• I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a valued trait. That`s why I had to learn kindness. As I grow older I'm finding it's something I definitely need to put focus on, thought and practice. Kindness actually comes from the heart, so it's really stretching inside of me. It's been quite a magical journey for me to learn to be kinder in my dealing[s] with other people.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Football, Kindness, Military

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• Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Powerful, Exercise, Together We Can

  "In the Darkened Sea, a Deaf Whale Is a Dead Whale" by Pierce Brosnan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2014.

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• There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Numbers, Capes

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

  Richard Branson

  Government, Issues, Long

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . It's a nifty volume, not only because it gives you a sense of what our most highly regarded military theorists are thinking but because sometimes what they're thinking is the last thing you'd expect. Especially interesting is a section called 'Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations,' which tells us: 'Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction' and 'Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.'

  David L. Ulin

  Military, War, Army

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• It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

  Edward Kennedy

  Marine Corps, Peace Corps

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• There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

  Chesty Puller

  Military, World, Want

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• Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

  Jim DeMint

  Military, War, Trying

  "Reid’s move delayed rap on Berkeley". thehill.com. February 11, 2008.

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• You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Figures

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• Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

  Clint Walker

  Summer, New Orleans, Rivers

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• I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

  Art Buchwald

  Home, Youth, Hesitation

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

  Gene Hackman

  Trouble, Authority

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• If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Biologist, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

  Regis Debray

  Latin, Moving, America

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• My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

  Henry Rollins

  Acting, Cop, Range

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• A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.

  Zell Miller

  Pride, Accomplishment, Foundation

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• I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

  Raymond Kelly

  Military, Self, Principles

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• Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Sea, Coral Reefs, Foundation

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• Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Passion, Issues, Trying

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Country, Men, Body

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• People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, College, Garden

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• I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

  Karl Marlantes

  Pride, Maturity, Hard Times

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.115, Atlantic Books Ltd

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