Philip Gibbs Quotes

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Philip Gibbs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 1, 1877 - March 10, 1962

Topics

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I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

Steven Ford

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I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Smokey Robinson

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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

Shirley Williams

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Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

Michelle Alexander

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God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Monica Johnson

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I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

Michael Kiwanuka

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I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

Chino Moreno

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I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Connie Willis

GoodHateBookNeverFirstSequels

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

Brigitte Bardot

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I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play now.' 'Now I'll do a musical.' That was my instinct. So I don't feel boxed in. But 'African-American woman' is part of my identity. I don't want to relinquish that - especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.

Audra McDonald

MotherDaughterWomanIdentityMe

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

William J. Clinton

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People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement.

Sergei Lavrov

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