B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Literature

• India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Way
  • Person
  • Shame

• I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • New

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poetry
  • Impossible
  • Self

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Name
  • Blood
  • Differences

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Freedom
  • Color
  • Fight

• We are facing someone Iran who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Money
  • Political
  • Army

• Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town.

  

  Irene Dunne

• My favorite color is light pink.  I also like baby blue because it brings out my eyes.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Baby

• The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Book
  • Today

• We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

  

  Selena
  • Time
  • Music
  • Food

• I have dumped a girl over the phone - it's terrible isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call so I basically said, I don't wanna be with you any more,' and she cried... I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward, but we're not enemies now, so that's cool…But I wouldn't recommend it, it's very mean!

  

  Justin Bieber
  • She
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Growth
  • Management

• In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

  

  Andre Geim
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I'd try and sing like Howlin' Wolf. It was like a bark; there was melody to it - but I would go off a bit and I wouldn't stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn't tell you about harmonies. I couldn't tell about what notes I'm singing because nobody taught me to sing.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Melody
  • Harmonies
  • Notes

• Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Mean
  • Forget
  • Becoming

• Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar
  • People
  • Real
  • Job

• I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • Study
  • Profound

• The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart