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strong war distance
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
strong team home
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team Becca Fitzpatrick
strong lying home
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying. Becca Fitzpatrick
strong wells true-north
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free. Barry Pepper
strong ideas hungry
I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create. Barry Manilow
strong reading mean
I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it. B. D. Wong
strong military war
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness. B. H. Liddell Hart
strong war military
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down. B. H. Liddell Hart
strong military successful
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure. B. H. Liddell Hart
smart perfect waiting
If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting. Bill Simon
smart rodeo streets
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. Carrie Fisher
smart unhappy enough
A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy. Carrie Fisher
smart stupid order
Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things. Carrie Fisher
smart years water
I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan. Carrie Underwood
smart doe murder
How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder? Carl Sagan
smart knowing judgement
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used. Carl Sagan
smart pieces enough
We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not. Carl Sagan
smart knowledge responsibility
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ... Carl Sagan
gun winning people
When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out. Bill Cosby
gun hands people
We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch. Bill Cosby
gun men evil
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks C. S. Lewis
gun
I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk. C. S. Lewis
gun had-a-great-time
I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla. Bill Burr
gun pet
Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet. Bill Burr
gun issues views
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent... Bill Hicks
gun night hands
People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction. Bill Hicks
gun metaphysical ironclads
Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. Bertrand Russell