Quotes about Contentment, page 12

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

Quote by Randy Bachman about contentment

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Quote by Randy Bachman about contentment

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Quote by Francis Bacon about contentment

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Quote by Francis Bacon about contentment

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

Quote by John Abizaid about contentment

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

If you can't use what's at hand, you might as well go into another business!

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

The special effects people are so good! If you avoid looking at them until the moment of the performance, it's pretty sharp.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment

I decided that these are not secrets in the sense that once you know what the strategy was you'll be able next time to feed it.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment