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.

Bruce Headley

Seven furlongs is, maybe, the toughest distance because you have to run hard every step of the way. I like to try and work a horse that far before running him.

Adam Ross

'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.

Peggy Cox

Megan threw 110-11 which is a good start for her. Christina did a good job. We were fifth as a team overall. We were hoping to do a little better but we didn't have much for distance runners today.

Jason Jaffray

Of all four games on the trip, this was the one we needed to get some distance between us and this team. We've been winning, and we haven't been gaining any ground on these guys.

Mozelle Williams

We won't be entered in any distance relays, nor any of the jumps.

Democritus

There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.

Denis Johnson

This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration

Denis Diderot

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

Isabella Rossellini

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

Horace Horace

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

Eric Kriss

made representations to us recently they are planning to modify that license, and we believe, if they do so in the way that we understand that they have spoken about...the next iteration of the Open Format standard will include some Microsoft proprietary formats.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Jason Robert Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Sathya Baba

Love is the form of Brahman (The Supreme Reality)Brahman is love Divine.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Juan Ferrero

My form is getting better day by day and I guess I am ready for my first title this year.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Kim Martin

I have always imagined that I am Jim Craig.

George Benson

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

Lilla Crawford

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Blake Mycoskie

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Kurt Schrader

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Judd Gregg

Let us get ours done first, and then we will worry about working it out with the House,

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Erika Messam

Senior Day is emotional, whether you're a senior or not. It's tough to play after that. We got ourselves together and played strong. Everyone contributed today. It was special to me.

Alan Foreman

Now we speak in telegram form, we write little e-mails, and we have everything at our fingertips, so we don't train ourselves to keep anything inside.

Dennis Murphy

If we get there, we give ourselves a chance. We got there, so now we have a chance.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Billy Joel

If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Randy May

We need to step up to the 21st century. It's important that we can get ships in that can unload quickly.

Alan Watts

The wake doesn't drive the ship

David Dreman

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Benjamin Franklin

Little leaks sink the ship.

Jane Austen

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

Catherine Ponder

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

Barbara Kingsolver

Loose lips sink ships.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Bob Murphy

We didn't know how to train correctly, that's the truth. Today, we do know how. We do a lot of strengthening, a lot of stretching and it helps, even at my age.

Liz Phair

I love stretching myself musically.

Catherynne M. Valente

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

Vernor Vinge

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Denis Diderot

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Mark Adelson

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Scott Adkins

I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.

Andrew Jackson

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

Alexander Smith

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.