Navy Quotes - Page 8

• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

  Susan Orlean

  San Francisco, Office, Orbit

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Military, Exercise

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

  Kellan Lutz

  Moving, Fighting, Gun

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• I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Shoes, Two, Blue

  "The Audacity of Minnesota: Senator Amy Klobuchar". Interview with Lisa Depaulo, www.elle.com. March 30, 2010.

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• I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Europe, Important, World

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• France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  France, Naval, Treaties

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• I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Training, Different

  "Liam Hemsworth & Josh Hutcherson Talk Gale & Peeta in ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

  Jane Fonda

  Goodbye, Father, Fighting

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  Bob Feller

  War, Europe, People

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• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Children, Army

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• I grew up in a Navy family.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Grew Up, Grew

  "Elizabeth Edwards answers the real questions so many have". "Larry King Live", latimesblogs.latimes.com. May 12, 2009.

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• The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Army, People

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Training, Delusion

  "Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.' But suppose you had to choose?' Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.' There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!

  Patrick O'Brian

  Hands, Two, Differences

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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• I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Heart, Gun

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• But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

  Stuart Symington

  Children, Marine, Army

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• History shows that there are no invincible armies.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Reality

  Broadcast address, 3 July 1941

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• They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Mean, Cake

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  Jack Adams

  June, Parent, Permission

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Meat, Groups, Four

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• Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Fun, League

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• Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Lying, Long Ago, Civilization

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• You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Example, Bayonets

  "Scientifically speaking, who's funnier: Democrats or Republicans?" by Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Adam Brown’s zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam led a life that lacked direction. God, a woman, and the U.S. Navy gave it to him. FEARLESS is a love story...several love stories: a man for his woman, a warrior for his team, parents for kids, and soldiers for their country. There is no greater love than that a man lay down his life for his friends. Be warned—reading FEARLESS will change the way you see the world.

  Stu Weber

  Country, Team, Reading

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