Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes

“Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.”

Alfred Thayer Mahan

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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Human

• If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Money
  • Want
  • Company

• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Why
  • Question
  • Rest

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Girl

• I bat righty.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Bat

• It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Remember

• If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Stupid
  • Angry

• I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Friends
  • Friendships

• The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Relationship
  • Mom

• Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

  

  James Nesbitt

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

  

  Allan Savory
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• “Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.”

  

  Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Army
  • Supplies
  • Fleet