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.

Bill Halbrehder

Our penalty-killing unit was actually an offensive threat.

LeBron James

Out of our 22 turnovers, I'd probably say 10 to 12 were offensive fouls. Questionable calls, but we have to live with it.

Katie Brunelle

We never really got into our offensive rhythm. All season we've relied on our play in the paint, and they just pressed us outside a lot.

Ted Bahhur

I will probably give it to the offensive line.

Rene Portland

Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.

Don Johnson

I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way,

Dan Miller

I thought offensive rebounding killed us in the first half. They just pounded us on the glass.

Quantez Robertson

He just told me to be more of an offensive threat because a lot of teams saw that I wasn't scoring a lot of points.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Bede Griffiths

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

B. B. King

God made Blues right after he made woman.

C. S. Lewis

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

C. S. Lewis

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Carl Rakosi

Friends are not made, but recognized.

Carl Jung

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

Billy Bob Thornton

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.