Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes

“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”

Alfred Thayer Mahan

• War
• Enemy
• Gain

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  

  Kajol
  • Mother
  • Dying
  • Gift

• Actors don't have real value.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real
  • Value
  • Real Value

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • Best
  • Marriage

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Alive

• We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

  

  Jack Adams
  • American
  • Air
  • Japanese

• If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • You
  • Principles

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Living
  • England
  • Easygoing

• The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Quran

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Wife
  • Wine

• To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • May
  • Science
  • Spirit

• I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

  

  James Cameron
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Soldier

• I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Always

• “War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”

  

  Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Gain