Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Johnson

Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand,

Barry McCaffrey

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

B. H. Liddell Hart

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

B. H. Liddell Hart

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

B. H. Liddell Hart

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

B. H. Liddell Hart

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Billy Connolly

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

William Shakespeare

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Susan Gibson

They really like using real objects while they are playing. They like real kitchen items and real hammers and nails.

Jason Statham

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Erwin Rommel

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

George Herbert

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Neal A. Maxwell

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Marcus Trufant

He said he's there for us, watching for us and praying for us the whole time. He's in everybody's hearts, and he'll be there in spirit with us at the game.

Sherrie Neu

I was praying that Lizzie could take it, but it wasn't a guarantee. That was huge.

Jesper Parnevik

I was praying for the wind to be here today, which I actually thought was my only chance.

Sylvia Morel

He will talk about folklore, alternative and herbal medicines, and the tradition of praying for healing.

Haley Barbour

We're preparing for the worst and praying for the best,

C. S. Lewis

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Cesar Chavez

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

Dave Ramsey

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Niki Taylor

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.