Mahan Quotes

#1. Since then, as the Chinese navy becomes larger and more wide-ranging, the bent toward Mahan has only intensified in Beijing, especially with the rise of Indian sea power, which the Chinese fear; the Indians, for their part, view the Chinese in similar Mahanian terms.

Robert D. Kaplan

#2. Trust me, I write fiction.

Rob Mahan

#3. Power, for the writer ... .lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Ralph Ellison

#4. Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.

Mahan Esfahani

#5. When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

Mahan Esfahani

#6. Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#7. I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn't it? I mean, it's - it's just how it is.

Mahan Esfahani

#8. I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

Mahan Esfahani

#9. I mean to me, the harpsichord has a huge dynamic range. And I always say to people, come and listen to it. You know, come and listen. Come and actually experience this and realize there's good harpsichord playing, there's bad harpsichord playing. By the way, I am fun outside of this context.

Mahan Esfahani

#10. And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.

Mahan Esfahani

#11. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#12. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#13. My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Marilyn Manson

#14. Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#15. Mistakes are only horses in disguise
Ain't no need to ride 'em over
'cause we could not ride them different if we tried

Larry Mahan

#16. Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#17. Doubt is the only appropriate response for human beings.

Bill Maher

#18. I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

Dante Hall

#19. These people are rare who knows how to listen.

Hermann Hesse

#20. A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal

#21. If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

Annie Proulx

#22. I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.

Mahan Esfahani

#23. The client's question, "Are we getting the best deal?" (price negotiation) is very different from "Can we afford this?" (value justification); it is important to understand the difference.

Mahan Khalsa

#24. The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.

Asa Mahan

#25. As in 1914, the government mounted an extraordinary campaign to help. Winegrowers were granted delays in being called to active duty, military labor detachments were sent to the vineyards and farm horses of small growers were not to be requisitioned until the harvest was completed.

Don Kladstrup

#26. The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#27. It wasn't without its struggle, believe me. I had to fend for myself in every respect.

Jacqueline Mahan

#28. The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

Gore Vidal

#29. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham

#30. The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

Mahan Esfahani

#31. Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

Mahan Esfahani

#32. The presence of anti-IF antibodies is highly specific for pernicious anemia.

Terry Mahan Buttaro