Archibald Wavell Quotes

#1. Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

Swizz Beatz

#2. just because they don't hit you doesn't mean it isn't abuse. wouldn't you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle? guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be. - emotional abuse is still abuse.

Amanda Lovelace

#3. Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.

Archibald Wavell

#4. A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

Peter Medawar

#5. There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

Archibald Wavell

#6. No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell

#7. I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#8. The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

Archibald Wavell

#9. You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Mark Twain

#10. After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

Archibald Wavell

#11. But you're also fragile. Imagine a mended china plate which hasn't quite set.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Victor Hugo