1771 Battle Quotes & Sayings

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure - and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He — Arthur C. Clarke

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new. — Mark Haddon

I don't want to survive, Will, I want to live! — Courtney Allison Moulton

You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team. — Jose Bautista

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? — Marguerite Gardiner

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. — Thomas Berry

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. — Tommy Lasorda

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator. — Peter Lynch

We should ask our commanders ... " Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion."
"There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today ... Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight."
One last toss of the dice. — Robert Jordan

I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through. — Andy Murray

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up. — Bill Lee

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument. — Benedict Of Nursia