Douglas Haig Quotes

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

• War
• Desire
• Waiting
• Enemy
• Victory

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • Science
  • Process

• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Just
  • News
  • Entertainment

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• You told me the truth when you said to me once, 'There's a sort of wrong that can never be made up for'.

  

  George Eliot
  • Up
  • Truth

• After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

  

  John James Audubon
  • World
  • Long
  • Mind

• Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Responsibility
  • Choices
  • Inspire

• The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

  

  Douglas Haig
  • War
  • Desire
  • Waiting