The best Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

The best Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (August 22, 1934 – December 27, 2012) was a United States Army general. While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Courage Adventures Feet

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Lord Beckett: "You're mad!"
Jack Sparrow: "Well thats good, cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - Am Ende der Welt

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Courage Craziness & Weirdness

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

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Dreaming Courage

It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Rocky Balboa in Rocky Balboa

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You need to find yourself a nice French boyfriend. That's the best way to learn the language. In bed.

Antoine Lambert in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

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Threatening the British by saying there will be only salt and vinegar on the table, is like threatening the French by saying there will only be wine and baguettes, or threatening the Swiss by saying there'll only be chocolate and Nazi gold.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) - Brexit II

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France England & Great Britain Switzerland

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Gaulle

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We need to think about how young people use social networks. When things get out of hand we may have to regulate them or cut them off.

Emmanuel Macron - July 2023, about the riots in France

France Social Media

We will come back.

Kylian Mbappé - December 2022, on Argentina winning the World Cup

France FIFA World Cup 2022

Lino: "You're in the country known for the best food."
Amy: "I thought the French were known for the best food."
Lino: "You don't want the French to make you pasta."

Lino in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

Marine Le Pen

Mathieu: "Do you know what the French do when things are at their darkes? When the bombs were falling during World War II, know what they did?"
Emily: "Hid?"

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 9

The last thing a lion wants is to have his dinner handed to him on a silver platter.

Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 4 Episode 1

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

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You don't bring a date to a wedding, that's like taking a deer carcass on a hunting trip.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother

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The tragedy of the kill is that it ends our chase.

Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites in League of Legends

When one hunt ends, another begins.

K’Sante, the Pride of Nazumah in League of Legends - on Kill

No life can be owned. Not a deer's. Not a rabbit's. And not mine. Every creature has a birth-given right to live however it will. However it can.
My right is to hunt. To feed off the wilderness in the understanding that, one day, will feed off me.

Ranger in Path of Exile

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature, that was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

First rule of hunting, become your target, then hunt yourself down.

Jackal in Rainbow Six - Siege

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

2Pac

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War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

Niko Bellic in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - IV

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I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

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This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Saving Private Ryan

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

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War Peace Revenge

Sweat is the urine of the skin.

Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon - Season 4 Episode 3

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

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Happiness Sweating

Wanna know what's on this beetle's diet? Sweat and tears, that's what! That's how it gets stronger... I think we can all learn somethin' from that!

Arataki Itto in Genshin Impact

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Four months ago, I was an Indian loser with cystic acne, sweaty armpits, and glasses. But with Lasik procedure, an Accutane prescription, and medical-grade Botox injected into my armpits, I'm normal.

Bela Malhotra in The Sex Lives of College Girls - Season 1 Episode 1

Humans are meant to work and sweat to earn a living. Those that try to get rich quick, or live at the expense of others, all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. Unfortunately, we quickly forget the lessons we've learned and then we have to learn them all over again.

Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop - Season 1 Episode 11

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.

Thomas Harris in The Silence of the Lambs

I'm sweating like a hooker in church.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

Karen Blixen in Out of Africa

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Crying & Tears Ocean Sweating

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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