J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

J. F. C. Fuller

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Terrible
  • Accident

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Book
  • Goal
  • Doing

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Fire

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Tangled

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • God
  • Men
  • Done

• In war, one cannot say what one feels.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Feels

• D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Brave
  • Destroy
  • Qualities

• This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Progress
  • Theatre

• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Wish