Ardant Du Quotes

#1. I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-)

Michael Edwards

#2. What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

Rajneesh

#3. He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

Ardant Du Picq

#4. Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.

Bryan Fuller

#5. They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

Erica Bauermeister

#6. I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

Grimes

#7. The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Alvin Dark

#8. I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Helen Suzman

#9. The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

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#10. Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

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#11. The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

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#12. Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Jurgen Moltmann

#13. If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

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#14. those with no eyes to read readily are doomed

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#15. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. You are the best, most loving, supportive family anyone could ever have," I said through my sobs. "I'm so sorry if I'm a burden."
They all told me not to be so bloody silly, I told them not to swear, and Landen gave me a handkerchief for my tears.

Jasper Fforde

#17. I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

Candace Pert

#18. A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

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#19. But you are life and you are the veil.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. You don't strike me as the princess type."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Daniel Smiled. "It means that I'd still go out of my way to rescue you, but you'd probably smack me across the head and try to slay the dragon yourself.

Jeyn Roberts