#les

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#men #titles

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less? ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#because #concept #cut #dollars #entrepreneurs

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. ↗

— Ben Harper

#away #burn #find #make #only

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security. ↗

— Mark Hatfield

#national #national security #our #people #security

In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#blessed #earth #good #good lord #great

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. ↗

— Max Hastings

#get #going #later #life #ones

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#britain #doctrine #free #free society #guide