Me Quotes

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

~ Sebastian Junger

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

~ George Mcgovern

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

~ Alfred Nobel

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

~ Curtis Lemay

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

~ David Morrell

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

~ Kate Adie

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

~ Mikhail Gorbachev

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

~ Stanley Crouch

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

~ Joel Silver

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

~ Hans Blix

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

~ Blaise Pascal

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

~ Tom Cruise

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

~ Haruki Murakami

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

~ Daniel Ellsberg

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

~ Stand Watie

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

~ J.k. Rowling

Failure is a word unknown to me.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

~ Emma Watson

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

~ Thomas A. Edison

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

~ Tina Fey

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

~ Jerry West

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

~ Knute Rockne

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

~ Thomas A. Edison

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

~ Humphry Davy

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

~ Emma Watson

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

~ Emma Stone

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

~ Keyshawn Johnson

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

~ Mason Cooley

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

~ Peter Jackson

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

~ Ruth Rendell

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

~ Spike Jonze

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.

~ Natalie Cole