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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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• 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

• We live in diverse communities with all sorts of people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The more our entertainment can be a reflection of the world we live in, the better it is for all of us.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Study
  • Toxins
  • Malnutrition

• 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
  • Blood
  • Name
  • 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

• 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

  

  Louis XIV
  • Done
  • Father
  • Death

• 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