Artillery famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
-- Ernie Pyle

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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
-- Michelle Bachelet

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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

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If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.
-- James R. Clapper

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Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.
-- Lynsey Addario

#Gender #Artillery #Mortar

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
True repentance is to cease from sin.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.
Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? Itâ€™s over; youâ€™re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?
Iâ€™ve been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is just a girl who loves music and loves to be around the people who make it. She is the fan that takes it to the next level to experience the whole shebang,