A Quotes
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“An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.”
“An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.”
“An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’s
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention!”
Source: Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.”
Source: Civil War Stories
“An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.”
“An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.”
“An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.”
“An aroma more heavenly than a flight of angels trickled on the breeze. "Coffee!" He breathed the word like a prayer.”
Source: Clockwork Menagerie
“An aroma of cedar and lemon fill my senses, and I return to a cellar miles to the north, where a red-haired boy I loved made me feel less alone. I have spent so long hating the Nightbringer that I never mourned who he used to be. Keenan, my first love, my friend, a boy who understood my loss so deeply because he had endured his own.”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.”
Source: Henry V (Shakespeare Library Classic)
“An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.”
“An arrogant and the dictator cannot rise a democracy”
“An arrogant man forever thinks he can do much more than he can.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.”
“An arrogant mind lives in its own little reality where it’s entitled to everything.”
“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.”
“An arrogant rich and a humble poor both need help! The former needs help to be human; the latter needs help to live humanely!”
“An arrogant woman scoffs her husband in public; but during time of trouble she seduces him back for help privately.”
“An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!”
“An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.”
“An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“An arrow unleashed by an archer may kill a single man or not kill anyone; but a strategy unleashed by a wise man kills even those still in the womb (10.6.51)”
Source: Arthashastra
“An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.”
“An art book is a museum without walls.”
“An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.”
“An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.”
“An art expands its audience by presenting masterpieces, not mediocrity.”
Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
“An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently”
Source: John Cage Uncaged Is Still Cagey
“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.
The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”
Source: The Public Papers
“An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?”
“An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.”
“An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“An art thief is a man who takes pictures.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”
“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.”
“An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.”
“An Artemisian Coronation by Stewart Stafford
A waxing moon with tidings,
Cataract vision in sheer mist,
Through curtains of fine rain,
The foresight of the lunar eye.
Cockcrow stabs the dawn,
Drowned green fields rouse,
Boars trample in the fens,
Sheep as anchored clouds.
A magpie and raven duelling,
Branch to branch to the death,
Proudly staking their claims,
To the wren's avian coronation.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.”
Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author
“An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.”
Source: Writing Home
“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”
“An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate of nothingness. Time’s destructive march towards meaningless is arrested through memory and art depicting humankind’s struggles and accomplishments.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.”
“An artist bears no gender.”
“An artist brings words to life through images, while an author creates living images using words.”
“An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.”
“An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.”