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James Wolfe Quotes

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: british
Birth: January 2, 1727 - September 13, 1759

Topics

Life Men Me Believe Conquer Die

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

Interesting You Find Get Made Most

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Love Women Encouragement Help Trying

My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

Work Science Children Relationships

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

History Too Much Civil Rights Rights

Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

Baby Wait Start You Born Say

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

You Find Arts Ever Strongest

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

Michael Polanyi

Science Experience Data Hold Rule

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

End You Away Film Get Throw

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Children Husband Think Desire Want

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Great People Listening Saying Think

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Arthur Erickson

Heart Great Architecture Buildings

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

Failure Past City Understanding Same

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