Flank Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
— Betty Smith
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Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for…
— J M Coetzee
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Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
— Robert W. Sarnoff
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One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried,…
— Bent Larsen
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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.…
— Jonathan Raban
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Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well.…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be,…
— William Gibson
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Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony?
— Rick Riordan
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When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged,…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right…
— Henry Villard
Who Wrote These Flank Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Flank Quotes as follows: