Pincer Quotes

#1. New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Ramez Naam

#2. Tanks beached at X and Z were to race inland before dawn in a pincer movement to help capture two airfields south of Oran while Operation RESERVIST supposedly secured the port. Infantrymen would also encircle the city, preventing any reinforcements from reaching Oran if the French chose to fight.

Rick Atkinson

#3. War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

Thom Yorke

#5. When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

E.B. White

#6. Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.

Rachel Maddow

#7. you cannot overcome something, without first standing toe to toe with it, then challenging yourself to defeat that which you want to change

Rick Ferreira

#8. My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

William Shatner

#9. The cookie-verse is infinite

Dorie Greenspan

#10. I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

Katherine Moennig

#11. All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.

George W. Bush

#12. The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Oscar Wilde

#13. But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

George Gilder