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«We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?»
Author: Gen John W. Vessey, Jr.
| Keywords:
doing nothing, Marine, Marines, Northern, pinned, pin down, rampant, regiment, regimented, Southwestern
«We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.»
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
«Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.»
Author: Thomas J. Watson
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
alternative, come back, doing nothing, manage, Right or Wrong, slap, slapped, slapping, slaps
«Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Guilt
| Keywords:
collective, Confessions, culprit, culprits, Discovery of, doing nothing, safeguard, The Discovery
«We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
acting, complain, complaining, doing nothing, Nothing yet, no end, shortness, sorely, spent
«Well, we can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workmen»
«The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
achieves, biggest, doing nothing, mistake, mistakes, The Man Who
«When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Danger
| Keywords:
barking, bathroom, bathrooms, doing nothing, locked, running, running water, The Dog, water dog
«When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.»
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