Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Alan Dundes

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Cate Blanchett

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

Alexandre Dumas

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Jane Austen

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Lenny Alcivar

Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania.

Ewa Kopacz

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.