Quotes About Strategy

Sabotage and subversion represented the only possible way of striking back and Churchill instructed Dalton to establish – as he called it – a Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

He complained to his superiors at 'being shot at from behind hedges by men in trilbys and mackintoshes and not allowed to shoot back'. But those men in trilbys taught him a lesson he would never forget: irregular soldiers, armed with nothing but homespun weaponry, could wreak havoc on a regular army.

She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much. Then stop playing it.

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.

I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan.

Only Tanner Bolt could get away with making me, a client, fly to him, then tell me what kind of dance I'd need to do in order to give him my money.

People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan.

I waited her out. Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.

But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.

Pero ¿Quién gana aquí? Gano yo, porque mi lista, la lista maestra titulada << Joder a Nick Dunne>>, era rigurosa, la lista más completa y minuciosa jamás creada.

I don't want to panic them,' I said. 'If we don't

Manipulating the manipulatable?

an iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.

If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.

Raven is an asset in any game including One-Eye. One-Eye cheats. But never when Raven is playing.

Wyszed?em my?l?c, ?e ja i Kompania wdepn?li?my w to po uszy. K?opoty ze wszystkich stron. ?onglowali?my zbyt wielk? liczb? pi?ek naraz. Z tym, ?e nie by?y to pi?ki, lecz no?e o zatrutych ostrzach.

Here's some more stuff we're going to need. 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

You didn't argue with Griffin when there was a plan involved. In this town, Griffin Bing was The Man With The Plan.

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together, retorted Mark.

Warboss Badthug: Sneaky gitz! They're kounter-attacking our kounter-attack!

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science. Paintings that talk. Sculpture that swims. Books that turn to ash. New formulas just like the scientist. But that isn't science of course, nor is it art. Just the end of the road.

President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor.

In the end, only Washington's majestic presence kept the army together. He was also lucky in his British counterparts: mediocrities to a man. (One British observer noted, "Any general in the world other than General Howe would have beaten General Washington; and any general in the world other than General Washington would have beaten General Howe.")