#gene

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

#clearing #defeat #generals #making #move

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation. ↗

— Jodi Rell

#another day #cannot #day #decisions #difficult

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. ↗

— Keith Richards

#going #guitar #maybe #millions #organisation

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#damn #dustin #dustin hoffman #favorite #gene

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#assurance #even #generally #happens #keeps

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s? ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#generous #how #less #politics #possible

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#generally #happens #life #something

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors. ↗

— John Bolton

#financed #general #general motors #i #like