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Giulio Douhet Quotes

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

Giulio Douhet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: italian
Birth: May 30, 1869 - February 15, 1930

Topics

Acceptance Victory Conquer Defeat

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Jimmy Carter

Sometimes Everyday Human Noble Level

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Andie MacDowell

Sad Woman Death Tired Sadness Look

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

Megan Rapinoe

Day Thinking Kind Seems Like Hours

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

Fear Jealousy Comparison

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

Michael Beschloss

Hope Name American Kings Expectation

For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.

Amitava Kumar

Years Magical Realism Last Refuge

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Stephen Hunter

Money You New Movies Horror More

During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

Stephen Kinzer

Challenges Fighting Attention Lost

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

Stephanie Sigman

Challenge New Boring Actor Project

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

Romesh Gunesekera

Politics War Small Place Go Try

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Jonathan Kozol

Children Isolation Black Sin Deepest

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Janice Dickinson

Women People Me American Everyone