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

• 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

• 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've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Night
  • College

• No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • God

• I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

  

  Maxine Peake

• Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Laughter
  • Worship
  • Forgiving

• If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Love
  • City
  • Sun

• There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art. I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?’

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Persons

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

  

  Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Army
  • Supplies
  • Fleet