J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Dreams
  • False
  • Tales

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Thought
  • Security
  • Sexuality

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • Travel

• Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Live
  • Why
  • America

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • God
  • Future

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Myself

• The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.

  

  Jason Mantzoukas
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Light

• This is of fundamental importance in ensuring that Gaza does not in the future stay as a prison, it opens up economic and social relations.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Future
  • Economic

• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Proud

• As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Future