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Duke of Wellington Quotes

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Duke of Wellington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: british
Birth: May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852

Topics

Battle Lost Nothing Half Melancholy

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

Experience Quality Thinking Living

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

Children Food Eating Behavior Bad

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

Leadership Leader You Born Student

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.

Hate Someone Growing Faithful Being

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

Momentum Create Never Anything

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

Partner Right United West Here

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

Myself Thought You Know Never Up

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Sheryl Sandberg

Live Husband Lost Through Thing

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

Woman Mistake Kitchen Go Never She

A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.

Richard LaGravenese

Funny Friend Live Great College

The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.

Walk Relax Opportunities Think

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

Good I Can Heights Never Ground

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