Quotes About Engagement

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

The more their attention is directed to how well they're doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they're doing.

Are we still lecturing—which, as the writer George Leonard observed, is the "best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind"?

For the walk, count "one, two, three, four" or you could say, "bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter" along with your pony's steps. For the trot, try humming a song like "Jingle Bells" or counting "one, two, one, two" as you post.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

I can't chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you're a lot better-looking.

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It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.