A Quotes
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“An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.”
“An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.”
“An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.”
“An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.”
“An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.”
“An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.”
“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The suggestion that this also meant the holding and wielding of power was judged offensive by these same people, who preferred to view their role as service, though in fact this was typical of an era when many of the great rich families withdrew from the new restless grab for money of a modernizing America, and having already made their particular fortunes, turned to the public arena as a means of exercising power. They were viewed as reformers, though the reforms would be aimed more at the newer seekers of wealth than at those who already held it. (“First-generation millionaires,” Garry Wills wrote in Nixon Agonistes, “give us libraries, second-generation millionaires give us themselves.”)”
Source: The Best and the Brightest
“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.”
“An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.”
“An aristocrat in morals as in mind.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919
“An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.”
Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
“An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.”
“An arm about her back, he guided his rod between soft, silken thighs, rubbing her cleft, letting her feel the rigidness of his erection. Her eyes widened; it was as if he could see her heart stop.
Her legs went wide. Aidan groaned and clamped her against him. He was shaking with need. God help him, he couldn't stop. He couldn't stave off his desire. Not now. Not yet. And when he plunged deep, her silken heat and warmth surrounded him, sending him to a place where nothing existed but the two of them.”
Source: The Seduction Of An Unknown Lady
“An arm snaked around my waist, pulling me to a stop. For the first time in my life I was literally stuck between two boys. Huh. And here I thought it would be more fun than this.”
Source: Frigid
“An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.”
“An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“An armed disciplined force is in its essence dangerous to liberty.”
“An armed man is a little republic unto himself”
Source: Gun Guys: A Road Trip
“An armed man need not fight.”
Source: Beyond This Horizon
“An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.”
“An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.”
“An armed society is a free society.”
“An armed society is a polite society.”
Source: Beyond This Horizon
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
Source: Beyond This Horizon
“An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]”
“An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.”
Source: Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress,: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States
“An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.”
“An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.”
Source: God of the Machine
“An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.”
“An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.”
“An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.”
“An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.”
“An army marches on its stomach.”
“An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.”
Source: The Art of War
“An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.”
“An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.”
“An army never expects to lose a war to a flightless bird – or any bird, really.”
Source: Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction
“An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves.”
“An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.”
“An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.”
Source: A selection from the letters and despatches of the first Napoleon
“An army of lovers shall not fail.”
Source: Poems
“An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.”
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.”
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
“An army of the people is invincible!”
“An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.”
Source: Reflections in a Golden Eye
“An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.”