Antoine-Henri Jomini Quotes
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.Antoine-Henri Jomini
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara Cartland -
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
Karen O -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
Vanessa Marcil -
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
Ira Glass -
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick deWitt -
I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
Kate Middleton -
A lot of films come out before they're finished.
Ed Harris -
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Ziyi Zhang
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
Harbhajan Singh -
It's always about the music, never about anything else.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes -
If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
Vanessa Lachey -
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Samuel Johnson -
There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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If you want a conservative country, you need a conservative populace. Immigration is changing the country, and there will be no changing it back. If you don’t understand that, you are the enemy of any conservative undertaking.
Ann Coulter -
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
John Eisenhower -
I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
Ray Charles -
The dead govern the living.
Auguste Comte -
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.
Antoine-Henri Jomini