Ferdinand Foch Quotes
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.Ferdinand Foch
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
Nancy Pelosi -
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
Rachel Zoe -
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
Adam McKay -
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
Warren Farrell -
I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
Adam Jones
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
J. D. Vance -
I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
Tea Leoni -
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
Daniel Clowes -
This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
Gary Hart -
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
Sam Shepard -
I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
Jack Vance
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Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup
Eminem -
The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup-in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.
Cory Doctorow -
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
Anselm of Canterbury -
I like 'Homeland' a lot.
James Wolk -
I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.
Mary Beard
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Francesco Guicciardini -
We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
Desmond Tutu -
There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.
Melanne Verveer -
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Gao Xingjian -
Amos built a wigwam in the clubhouse because he didn't want the reporters talking to him. He didn't like something that was written in the paper. I looked in there and saw an Indian blanket. He was sitting on it like a chief.
Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse -
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
Ferdinand Foch