Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Richard M. Nixon

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Robin Cook

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Robert Jay Lifton

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

Robert Jay Lifton

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

Richard Dawkins

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Emmitt Smith

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

Oliver Stone

Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It's a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?

Kamala Harris

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Julian Assange

I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

Kenneth R. Miller

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

John Guare

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

Frida Giannini

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Virat Kohli

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Riccardo Muti

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Robin Wright

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Samuel Johnson

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Samantha Bond

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

William Hazlitt

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Wendell Berry

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.