"The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have toÂ prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed inÂ many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few."

-- Sun Tzu

#Fighting Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?”
“The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.”
“Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.”
“I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.”
“The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.”
“...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.”
“It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.”
“Commenting on paternity establishment programs: What these millions of children want and need is not a name on a form or a promise that the sheriff will arrest these guys if they don't pay child support. What they want and need is in-the-home, love-the-mother fathers,. . .”

You may also like:

Carl von Clausewitz
Military Historian
Confucius
Philosopher
Laozi
Philosopher
Mencius
Philosopher
Miyamoto Musashi
Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Qin Shi Huang
King
Sun Bin
Author
Zhuge Liang
Inventor