#tory

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#annihilation #confront #danger #deadly #fall

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#afterwards #battle #been #defeat #destined

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#boy #covering #fun #had #i

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cbs #cbs news #elements #how #i

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#doing #enjoy #favorite #good #good story

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#building #considers #fatherland #first #first time

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media. ↗

— David Brock

#into #media #over #regular #spill

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#critic #every #history #last #literary

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#britain #building #cell #cell research #center