Moltke's Quotes

#1. The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change. The Kaiser could not change Moltke's plan nor could Kitchener alter Henry Wilson's nor Lanrezac alter Joffre's.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

Michael Moss

#3. Every war is a national misfortune.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#4. I'll eat my head!

Charles Dickens

#5. All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.

Ken Wilber

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

Mike Cohn

#7. How easy we make mass murder.

Pierce Brown

#8. Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time."
"My pleasure. Always happy to educate.

Stephanie Perkins

#9. Moltke closed upon that rigid phrase, the basis for every major German mistake, the phrase that launched the invasion of Belgium and the submarine war against the United States, the inevitable phrase when military plans dictate policy - and once settled it cannot be altered.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. I think you dropped something, Pipe," he said. "Uh, what?" "Your standards," he sneered.

J.L. Weil

#11. Strategy is a system of expedients

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#12. Sometimes people help each other, and get messed up in each other's business; sometimes we stay out of it and let people find the way themselves. It's always right to offer help, but not all help is right.

Louise Rozett

#13. Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home - these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

Rachel Held Evans

#14. Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#15. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#17. The body releases its electricity, merges with another, and together there is something like God in this pleasure. But afterward, in the quiet redolent air, there must also be offerings of truth. And so the mystery of love deepens.

Steve Almond

#18. You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Pat Robertson

#19. Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me
and in the end, that is a man's duty.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#20. No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#21. The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#22. No plan survives the battle field.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#23. Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Thomas De Quincey

#24. An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

R. H. Tawney

#25. Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

Andrew Ripp

#26. In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#27. In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder