#starting

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. ↗

— Sunil Gavaskar

#come #comparison #comparisons #conditions #different

And this is why the defense is going to try to paint my brother out to be a drug addict and he was very dependent on drugs, and it's not true. Because how could someone be dependent on drugs since 2008, he was dancing four hours a day and he had a five-year plan of starting a new life. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#because #brother #could #dancing #day

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet! ↗

— Julian Lennon

#company #decision #had #haven #i

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#billion #cause #coast #east #east coast

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #bringing #change #continue #process

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#activity #am #anything #disorder #freedom

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. ↗

— Ron Paul

#american #american tradition #another #because #might

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. ↗

— Rob Portman

#even #fix #good #point #security