Flanks Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going… — Ulysses S. Grant
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader… — George R. R. Martin
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks — Dean Rusk
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them… — David Abram
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one… — Ernie Pyle
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning… — Erwin Rommel
Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side — Robert M. Sapolsky
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. — Pat Conroy
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on… — Napoleon Bonaparte
All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows… — Kiran Desai
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken… — William Carlos Williams
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of… — Jan Karon
Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins,… — Richard Siken
His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely,… — Angela Carter
He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but he ignored them.… — Jessica Day George
We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is… — Dean Rusk
I am different. Being just like the other one is boring. I embrace the fact that I am different. I love that part of my… — Marion Bartoli

Who Wrote These Flanks Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Flanks Quotes as follows: