Antoine-Henri Jomini Quotes

A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

• War
• State
• Defend
• Territory

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• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
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• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Great
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• In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
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• I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Phony
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• An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.

  

  Bob Dylan

• And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Children
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  • Morning

• God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • God
  • Men
  • Science

• I was always a little bit afraid because I found out at a very early age that once you make a record, all the mistakes and all the good things are there for eternity.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Good
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• Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

  

  Matt Damon
  • Interesting

• I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

  

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• I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.

  

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  

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• I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

  

  Carl Andre
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• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• I would think we have a trajectory of failure on the Republicans' part. When you think about how they managed to make John Kerry look bad during the last election for actually serving in Vietnam, and testifying in Congress after he'd gotten medals, and said that he didn't believe in them or that he didn't believe in the war and that it should stop . . . That they could turn that in negative when their guy, George W. Bush, never even went to Vietnam.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• Often we'll verge on embarrassing territory, a certain over-the-topness. But maybe that's just trying to unveil something that's inside all of us.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Trying
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  • Territory

• A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

  

  Antoine-Henri Jomini
  • War
  • State
  • Defend