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
  • Funny
  • Know
  • 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

• The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Struggle
  • Poor
  • Philosopher

• They are pushing the tempo more. Whenever you do that, you get more possessions. Under Larry Brown, they were more of an opportunistic fast-break team. Now, they are trying to run more.

  

  Eric Snow
  • Team
  • Pushing
  • Possessions

• Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

  

  Emile Augier
  • Wine
  • Drinking

• Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Tears
  • Use
  • Life is

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

  

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