Outgeneralled Quotes & Sayings

A woman's magnetism is not a body measurement. — Riley Murphy

John Adams commented after one disastrous defeat, In general, our Generals were outgeneralled. — Anonymous

She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of ... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle. — Bulent Ecevit

I suppose you mean Camilla?" "Yes, that's the book; such unnatural stuff! An old man playing at see-saw, I took up the first volume once and looked it over, but I soon found it would not do; indeed I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it: as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant, I was sure I should never be able to get through it." "I have never read it." "You had no loss, I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine; there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see-saw and learning Latin; upon my soul there is not. — Jane Austen

Capitalism has been called a system of greed - yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of. — Ayn Rand

It appears, Mister Lipwig, that you do not understand the nature of our relationship. I ask, very politely, for you to achieve something, bearing in mind that there are other ways I could ask, and it is your job to get things done. — Terry Pratchett

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves. — Robby Krieger

I hear your second one is pretty crazy about you, too. ( Yeah, that last part is totally me).
Your. Forever.
Josh.
And Nate. — Ginger Scott

Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded? — Cecilia London

They were able to deduce from his reports that the sharbat was poisonous to Turks but not to Kurds; however, because of the official state position that Kurds and Turks are indistinguishable, they kept this conclusion to themselves. — Orhan Pamuk

The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions. — Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

as men are wicked and not prepared to keep their word to you, you have no need to keep your word to them. — Antoine Laurain

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder. — Rudolf Carnap

The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually. — Virginia Woolf