English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

David Hackworth Quotes

David Hackworth quote: "It's human nature to start taking things for granted again..."

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. Suzanne Vega
...I was just laying aside a Lausanne paper I'd bought in Zurich when my eye was caught by a report that said the remains of the Bernese alpine guide Johannes Naegeli, missing since summer 1914, had been released by the Oberaar glacier, seventy-two years later. And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots. W. G. Sebald
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. William Labov
Rosario Dawson quote: "He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to..."
He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it. Rosario Dawson
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library. J. D. Salinger
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again. Henry Louis Gates
Yao Ming quote: "When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught..."
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now. Yao Ming
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. David Byrne
Jules Feiffer quote: "We want playmates we can own"
We want playmates we can own Jules Feiffer
Dan Fogelberg quote: "I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even..."
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail. Dan Fogelberg
I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met. Miranda Lambert
Bob Marley quote: "The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. Bob Marley
I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady-because I read daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her-because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship which, if careless and choosing rather to be sought than to seek, was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating, and in its very pride, irresistible. Charlotte Bronte
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. Rosa Luxemburg
H. G. Wells quote: "scrutinise"
scrutinise H. G. Wells