"The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise."

-- Ferdinand Foch

#Strong Quotes #Troops Quotes #Action Quotes

“Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.”
“Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.”
“I love fruit, when it is expensive.”

Source : Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.77, Broadview Press
“I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.”
“These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.”
“I know I am a human being. I can give myself to one year for a project. That is why I say I'm primitive in the way I work, especially compared to most artists. I came to New York in 1974, knowing that it is the art center of the world. But I didn't go to find people for my work. I do the work, and the people come to me, and I learn from them. That has always been my approach - to do the job first and then to respond to it after I finish and learn what people think about it. That's how I develop, and I'm more of an outsider in that way.”
“I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.”
“It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.”

You may also like:

David Lloyd George
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Senior officer
Erich Ludendorff
Political leader
Georges Clemenceau
French Statesman
John J. Pershing
Military officer
Joseph Joffre
Armed force officer
Maxime Weygand
Military Commander
Paul von Hindenburg
Statesman
Wilhelm II
Former German Emperor