Flank Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 3 Flank Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Flank Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Flank Quote by Joshua Chamberlain
• 1 Flank Quote by Henry Villard
• 1 Flank Quote by Betty Smith
• 1 Flank Quote by J M Coetzee
• 1 Flank Quote by Robert W. Sarnoff
• 1 Flank Quote by Bent Larsen
• 1 Flank Quote by Jonathan Raban
• 1 Flank Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart
• 1 Flank Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
• 1 Flank Quote by William Gibson