Douglas Haig Quotes

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 19, 1861 - January 29, 1928

Topics

WarWaitingVictoryDangerousDesire

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Jeri Ryan

PastSomeonePlayPleasurePoint

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Robert Gottlieb

SeaMenBuildingYouMuseumWay

A good record is one where I can tap my toes. I always say let your feet do the thinking.

Angus Young

GoodFeetThinkingI CanSayAlways

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

Amandla Stenberg

LifePowerIdeasReadingThinkYou

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

Steven Burd

JobFirstRightSan FranciscoHere

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

Tracy Chapman

SuccessMusicCareerFirstAnything

Achievement builds character.

Tom Landry

CharacterAchievementBuilds

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Robert Caro

MeMysteryWantBalletUnravelSort

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Roberto Benigni

LifeDayYourselfBe YourselfYou

I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for the right occasion. Many people call in, maybe their spirit it a little down, and she lifts them up. She is really somebody special. She's a lifeline to a lot of people.

Ronnie Milsap

LovePeopleListeningSongDownShe

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

Rudolf Steiner

ArchitectureWorldWishRiseCreate

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

Rupert Sheldrake

NatureOldDeterminedPredictable

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