Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'?
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. . . . But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
War is merely a continuation of politics.
Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.
You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the possibility of love.
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings