"If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Strong Quotes #Military Quotes #War Quotes

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.381, New Directions Publishing
“I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...”
“Whatever mind can concieved and believe can be achieves”
“The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.”
“You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.”
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”
“Did you find any artists complaining who don't already complain all day long about everything? No. But have you ever met a dealer who thought it was okay? Well, you maybe. It's still the art world. It's meant to be extreme. It's supposed to stand for liberty or whatever but really it's an extremely conservative environment. Why does everyone wear jeans? Because it's practical. To say something is taboo-breaking is to assume you have a clear image of the quality of a dealer. But there are certain dealers who always work this way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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