Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Douglas Haig

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

John Byng

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.

Thomas Monaghan

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

James Wolfe

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Horatio Nelson

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

David Milne

Jim Reid and I started the company as a design company, as I said earlier, back in '85 and and we transformed it into a product company in 1995.

John Byng

At two I made the signal to engage: I found it was the surest method of ordering every ship to close down on the one that fell to their lot.

Stanley Burrell

We're not defending like we usually do. It's putting us in a position where we all have to score the ball, because we're not getting stops. We're not defending at all. That's been our motto. That's our identity. We defend, and we get stops.

Rodney Harrison

We're not defending anything, because we don't have anything. (This) is a new season, just like 2005 is a new season for the Raiders.

Mick Durham

We're not defending and offensively we don't play together. Those are the two things that define us at this point.

Kim Yuna

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

Mike Williamson

Mike has really developed into a guy where if you need a goal, you have him in on the ice and the same when you are defending the lead. He plays in all situations and provides leadership in the dressing room. He logs a ton of ice time.

Tony DiCecco

One of the things about defending Drake is you have to defend them as a team.

Tony Snow

No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.

Michelle Ryan

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

Chris Mooney

We had a very hard time defending La Salle. We emphasize our offense so much, maybe we're not spending enough time on defense. We want to get back to being one of the better defensive teams and shut people down.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Duncan Hunter

You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor

Eddie Slovik

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

Ernest Hemingway

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Michael Aston

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

Paul Sergeant

May will be a massive month for Cardiff and Wales.

Tim Russert

Meet the Press ... But there has been no weapons of mass destruction.

Deng Xiaoping

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Bill Stewart

Because of the size of it, just the sheer mass and configuration ... it would take me not only twice as long, but we have a situation for snow mass and where we would put it.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Donald Rumsfeld

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Nikolay Davydenko

I can keep playing, get a massage at the start of every set,

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Kyle Williams

He possessed many qualities that I wish I had.

Mike Alden

He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.

Freddie Mercury

I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?

Elizabeth Smart

I am possessed by love and have no options.