Edmund H. North quotes

“I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.”
-- Edmund H. North

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“Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.”
-- Edmund H. North

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“Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?”
-- Edmund H. North

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“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.”
-- Edmund H. North

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“The world only remembers the winners.”
-- Edmund H. North

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“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
-- Edmund H. North

Source : "Fictional character: Klaatu". "The Day the Earth Stood Still", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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“It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.”
-- Edmund H. North

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“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?”

Source : "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.

“I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.”

“Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.”

“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”

“I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.”

“Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.”

“I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.”