Peter Scott Quotes (16 Quotes)


    They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

    We are responding to feedback about our schemes from people who said they would like to have a text message service to alert them to any changes to the traffic management and lane closures so that they could plan their journeys better.

    I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

    Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.

    It has a very strong corporate sector, a very sensible government and Brazil is a place that is going to do extremely well over the medium term after this rough patch is out of the way.


    You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

    We cannot expect forever staff to show up on the airplane and be given a heavily subsidized house,

    I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

    It was very, very cold and there were a number of injuries, self-inflicted injuries, because people just couldn't take the cold.

    What parents usually hear are the random snorts and sniffles of air passing through mucus and secretions in the nose and throat.

    I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

    By the middle of the next century, China will be a great capitalist economy, ... I don't think anything can happen in the next few weeks or months to change that.

    But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

    The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

    I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

    Everybody, I would say, if you could love anybody he was loved by everybody because he had such concern for his soldiers and he was so able in getting them to do what he wanted them to do, and they did it instinctively and because his orders were so clear and concise, and I think that - I hope - that rubbed off onto me when I was CO.


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