Douglas Haig Quotes

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
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• I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
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• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
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• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
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• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Education
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• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
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• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
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• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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• Wheels can take you around.Wheels can cut you down.We can go from boom to bust.From dreams to a bowl of dust.We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to 'Brother can you spare...'Another war.Another wasteland.And another lost generation - Between The Wheels (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
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• It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.

  

  Ashton Eaton

• I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • World
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• Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  

  Douglas Haig
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Moral