Colonels Quotes - Page 5

• I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

  John Green

  Hands, Population, Littles

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.112, Penguin

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• Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

  John Green

  Sorry, Love You, Past

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.114, Penguin

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• And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

  John Green

  Mom, Fall, Forgiving

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• "And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."

  John Green

  Years, Pudge, Skinny

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, March 3, 2005.

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• I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kings, Thinking, Alternatives

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• Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

  Steve Sheinkin

  Military, Government, World

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• Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world.

  Allan Donald

  Army, World, Veteran

  "45 Quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in Honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th Birthday" by Tarun Mittal, yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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• Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

  Shari Arison

  Spiritual, Teaching, Army

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• The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Confused, Men, Stronger

  GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1960). “PLAYS”

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• We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

  Elvis Presley

  Wall, Perfect, Combination

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• Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Right on up and down the line. It was like a complete and total, not a total lie, but just like so much, it was like PR, in other words it was like okay, we've got to sell the war to the American people.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Lying, War, People

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• Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to some degree, in the way the media portrays the military. I'm not saying that's entirely wrong - the Fourth Estate is there to hold generals and colonels accountable for their actions and decisions - but having reporters on the scene, reporting in real time certainly complicates things for the military mission.

  Dave Abrams

  Military, Real, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Waltz, Judged

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

  Joe Biden

  Running, Matter, Reputation

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

  Joe Biden

  Unions, Honeymoon, Soviet Union

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.

  Eric McCormack

  Real, War, Southern

  Source: www.avclub.com

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