Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes
“Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Quotes to Explore
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
Ted Cruz
A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
Rabih Alameddine
My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'
Gavin Newsom
I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker
I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.
Natalie Maines
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
Joanne Rowling
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
Patrick Marber
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J. R. Moehringer
Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.
Gary Lineker
Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
Rahul Gandhi
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
Cyril Connolly