Ardant du Picq Quotes

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

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• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Virtue
  • Demand
  • Greater

• I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Political
  • Progress

• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Know
  • Funny
  • Best

• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Journey

• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Crush

• I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Happy
  • Personality

• I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Believe
  • Understanding
  • Very

• There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • May
  • Action

• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Money
  • More
  • Media

• Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Reason

• When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Fool
  • Intelligent
  • Show Me

• It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Romantic

• What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

  

  William Law
  • Men
  • Different
  • Christian

• I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

  

  Estelle
  • Control
  • Baby
  • I Remember

• For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!"

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Freedom
  • Prayer
  • Judge

• The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

  

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