Field Marshal Quotes

#1. PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

Idi Amin

#3. No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

Mike Cohn

#4. A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Wilhelm Keitel

#5. I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Hagee

#7. There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

Edward FitzGerald

#8. There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

Andrew Greeley

#9. The pedicure is beside the point - the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.

Amy Landecker

#10. I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

Manny Pacquiao

#11. He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more ... well, pleasant.

Mary Balogh

#12. But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

George Eliot

#13. The health of the eye demands a horizon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Thomas Szasz

#16. Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

Jenny Lewis

#17. I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity.

Toba Beta

#19. The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

#20. I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Juliette Binoche