Anthony Swofford quote: "I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed the contract, you crying bitch, and you fought in a war because of your signature, no one held a gun to your head. This is true, but because I signed the contract and fulfilled my obligation to fight one of America’s wars, I am entitled to speak, to say, I belong to a fucked situation."

I never saw it as a political book, ... I wanted to open up a world that people might not know anyth...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already ...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

He taught me how to read as a writer,
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

He was quoting me, to me, and he could name a scene and a page number. He convinced me that he knew ...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

I think I learned something more about that history of mine, ... There's a, you know, young kid who ...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

I was a guy, sitting alone in a room in Portland, just wanting to tell people what it's like to be i...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

Writing the book helped exorcise all of that, ... Many years later, I'm happy that I didn't have tha...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

We watched 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket' before we went to war. It was pornography for us...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

I'd never talked about it, ... I'd left the Marine Corps when I was 22 ... and I really left.
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

In the Company of Soldiers.
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

We were Marine snipers trained to kill someone from 1,000 yards away, and I could have done it all d...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

It occured to me that we will never be young again.
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

I heard a rumor that he had a BB gun, but I didn't think he really had one.
JEFFERY SWOFFORD

He said he had something planned.
JEFFERY SWOFFORD

He said he had something planned. He said 'I hope I die today because I don't really like my life.
JEFFERY SWOFFORD

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a d...
ANTHONY MARRA

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both th...
ANTHONY MARRA

With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of i...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
ANTHONY FOXX

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, a...
ANTHONY HOLDEN

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ...
ANTHONY MARRA

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ...
ANTHONY ANDERSON

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endles...
ANTHONY PRATT

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as mi...
ANTHONY FAUCI

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
ANTHONY RAPP

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLOPPE

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

[During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.
ANTHONY BEAL

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man...
ANTHONY BEAL

I am a precious evil.
ANTHONY BEAL

My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
ANTHONY BEAL

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which...
ANTHONY BEAL

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
ANTHONY HOPE

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i...
ANTHONY MARRA

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first majo...
ANTHONY FAUCI

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to d...
ANTHONY CORLISATRA

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something ba...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Action is the foundational key to all success.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find hi...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has pr...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the b...
ANTHONY SAMPSON

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the...
ANTHONY ATALA

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Personal power is the ability to take action.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-ending Improvement.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything i...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yours...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS

There are people that will give you time when it shines, then fade away when it shades.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Even a rock moves on.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. D...
ANTHONY ERVIN

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shar...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanti...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more y...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Passion is the genesis of genius.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Live with passion!
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your l...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The past does not equal the future.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension ...
ANTHONY SAMPSON

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
ANTHONY HOPE

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to ...
ANTHONY SAMPSON

Students are extraordinary teachers. They speak. They constantly tell us how our expectations, objec...
ANTHONY GREGORC

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO

I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd mo...
ANTHONY BURGESS

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your d...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
ANTHONY QUINN

Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they pre...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Don't fear change -- embrace it.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our r...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never conce...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the wor...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

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