Tanks Quotes - Page 2

• And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

  Jack Kerouac

  Beat Generation, Hippo

  William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks”, p.185, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Our approach is very simple we have nothing to negotiate ... We have the Minsk format and we need immediately just a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy artillery and weapons and tanks from the touchline, the solution is very simple - stop supplying weapons ... withdraw the troops and close the border. Very simple peace plan. If you want to discuss something different, it means you are not for peace, you are for war.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Peace, War, Mean

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• London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Apples, Tea, Sunflower

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Smart, Widows And Orphans

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• When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.

  N. T. Wright

  Blow, People, Way

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• At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.

  Marc Andreessen

  Glasses, Hair, Rocks

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• Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

  Grace Slick

  Men, Rocks, Band

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• It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart.

  Malcolm X

  Heart, Warrior, Sneakers

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.

  Jean Larteguy

  Country, Military, Army

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• The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

  Joseph Stalin

  Glasses, Soul, Important

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• It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.

  Jose Mourinho

  Race, Play, Car

  "How Barcelona spawned Mourinho as its nemesis" by Simon Kuper, www.ft.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Teacher, Hate

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• Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

  Jim Cooper

  Thinking, Foundation, Heritage

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• A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

  Renzo Gracie

  Sharks, Land, Meals

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• Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

  Mahesh Babu

  Airplane, Aspiration, Moderates

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• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Gun, Europe, Wind

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• Got my tank top top down, it probably ain't summer but I ride like that cause I'm hotter than the others.

  Lil Wayne

  Summer, Top Down, Causes

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• When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Car, Return

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• No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

  Bryan Cranston

  Left

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

  Richard Simmons

  Airports, Upset, Legs

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• You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

  Janet Evanovich

  Lying, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Gun, Fire, Hands

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.99, Random House

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• Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

  Bill Pascrell

  Minimum Wage, Half, Pay

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