Fatiguing Maneuver Quotes & Sayings

Facebook is great for getting upset about things people say even though you haven't seen them in 12 years. — Dov Davidoff

How often is the term 'savages' incorrectly applied! None really deserving of it were ever yet discovered by voyagers or by travellers. They have discovered heathens and barbarians whom by horrible cruelties they have exasperated into savages. It may be asserted without fear of contradictions that in all the cases of outrages committed by Polynesians, Europeans have at some time or other been the aggressors, and that the cruel and bloodthirsty disposition of some of the islanders is mainly to be ascribed to the influence of such examples. But — Herman Melville

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. — Ernest Shackleton

There should always be in sight the draw - a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth. — Stewart Brand

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. — Norm Cash

The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds. — Grace Hopper

Acknowledge the good around you and the simplicity it takes to recognise it — Moonish Sood

General Taylor participated in the celebration of the Fourth of July, a very hot day, by hearing a long speech from the Hon. Henry S. Foote, at the base of the Washington Monument. Returning from the celebration much heated and fatigued, he partook too freely of his favorite iced milk with cherries, and during that night was seized with a severe colic, which by morning had quite prostrated him. It was said that he sent for his son-in-law, Surgeon Wood, United States Army, stationed in Baltimore, and declined medical assistance from anybody else. Mr. Ewing visited him several times, and was manifestly uneasy and anxious, as was also his son-in-law, Major Bliss, then of the army, and his confidential secretary. He rapidly grew worse, and died in about four days. — William T. Sherman

Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting. — Alice Hoffman

For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority. — Daniel Ellsberg

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals. — Kieren Perkins