Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.”
—Lazare Carnot (17531823)
“I had to say something
To strike him very weird,
So I yelled out,
I like Fidel Castro and his beard.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“What is called a road there ... is only an indistinct vista through the wood, which it takes an experienced eye to detect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)