Colonel William Prescott quote: "Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.<br><small>N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.</small>"

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this q...
COLONEL WILLIAM PRESCOTT

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
COLONEL SAMUEL PRESCOTT

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from ther...
COLONEL SANDERS

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there wa...
COLONEL SANDERS

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ev...
COLONEL SANDERS

My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.
COLONEL SANDERS

Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.
COLONEL SANDERS

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a st...
COLONEL SANDERS

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COLONEL SANDERS

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral ...
COLONEL SANDERS

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness ab...
COLONEL SANDERS

I could see it wasn't going to be easy. I couldn't give a franchise to any old greasy spoon....
COLONEL SANDERS

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep try...
COLONEL POTTER

A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.
COLONEL SANDERS

To me, my recipes are priceless.
COLONEL SANDERS

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.
COLONEL SANDERS

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would ...
COLONEL SANDERS

I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.
COLONEL SANDERS

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than...
COLONEL SANDERS

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
COLONEL SANDERS

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.
COLONEL SANDERS

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
COLONEL SANDERS

Don't be against things so much as for things.
COLONEL SANDERS

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi...
COLONEL SANDERS

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT

My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week o...
DAK PRESCOTT

If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make...
DAK PRESCOTT

I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wan...
DAK PRESCOTT

Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I gre...
DAK PRESCOTT

I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they ...
DAK PRESCOTT

If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I ...
DAK PRESCOTT

I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure t...
DAK PRESCOTT

I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply...
DAK PRESCOTT

There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of co...
DAK PRESCOTT

On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy ca...
DAK PRESCOTT

If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ult...
DAK PRESCOTT

I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the rai...
DAK PRESCOTT

The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doin...
DAK PRESCOTT

I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back ri...
DAK PRESCOTT

A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg ...
DAK PRESCOTT

I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team...
DAK PRESCOTT

I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the...
DAK PRESCOTT

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football ...
DAK PRESCOTT

Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin ...
DAK PRESCOTT

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
DAK PRESCOTT

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
DAK PRESCOTT

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I could...
DAK PRESCOTT

If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
DAK PRESCOTT

There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes&#...
JOHN PRESCOTT

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win ...
PRESCOTT BUSH

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker....
JOHN PRESCOTT

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are...
JOHN PRESCOTT

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
JOHN PRESCOTT

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cr...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have s...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

The most difficult thing I've ever done was to tell the players. I wanted to make sure that they hea...
BOB PRESCOTT

I am very grateful for the opportunities that being in high school administration gave me. But the n...
BOB PRESCOTT

The water table is so low. The smaller ones are drying up as the plants come to life and start to dr...
BOB PRESCOTT

In most places it's very uncommon but on the Cape, in Plymouth County and up around Kingston it can ...
BOB PRESCOTT

When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. ...
DAK PRESCOTT

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't lik...
JOHN PRESCOTT

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

What we're looking for are the criteria a facility has to adhere to pass an audit.
MATT PRESCOTT

It was a good time, ... I like just flirting around.
DAVID PRESCOTT

He [Clark] threw the throttle way back. That is one fast plane.
DAVID PRESCOTT

It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out...
JOHN PRESCOTT

I love coming to Tories' seats and roughing them up... that is what elections are about.
JOHN PRESCOTT

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bott...
ELEANOR PRESCOTT

The added factors of shooting animals with a camera, rather than a gun, are compassion and respect f...
HEIDI PRESCOTT

It is good for him to get out and reminisce, ... The stimulation is wonderful.
DAVID PRESCOTT

Macho? Moi?
JOHN PRESCOTT

By entering the entry negotiations, Turkey also enters into obligations in regard to recognizing all...
JOHN PRESCOTT

You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our pro...
JOHN PRESCOTT

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration...
JOHN PRESCOTT

The behavior of the students impressed the administration. They stayed in their seats and kept the a...
PRESCOTT WHITE

It does sound not a very sensitive way to deal with such a difficult matter.
JOHN PRESCOTT

I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I ca...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million ...
JOHN PRESCOTT

I'm kind of on the fence. On one hand it's easy to take it and be done with it. But on the other han...
JOHN PRESCOTT

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've...
JOHN PRESCOTT

The zoning board and the Planning Board should honor the Master Plan and what the site was intended ...
DAVID PRESCOTT

It's tough because we've been out of school and can't practice, but I'd hate not to play this week, ...
DAVID PRESCOTT

We're supposed to play Covington and we know that area was hit pretty hard,
DAVID PRESCOTT

I've hung around airplanes all my life, ... I don't need to see another plane take off.
DAVID PRESCOTT

It makes sense to me. I forget my wallet more than I forget my cell phone.
GREGORY PRESCOTT

The program acts as a middleman, giving retailers the information they need without names, addresses...
GREGORY PRESCOTT

We call it ?Laser-like marketing.? It not only encourages impulse buying for businesses, it gives co...
GREGORY PRESCOTT

We provide several support services. We have boutiques with wigs and hats for people going through t...
GAY PRESCOTT

All the money raised goes directly to the services of the cancer support homes. We operate this even...
GAY PRESCOTT

We had several survivors out there playing. It's great to see them getting on with their lives and g...
GAY PRESCOTT

We ask for their immediate release. As an independent humanitarian organization we expect that all p...
GEOFF PRESCOTT

It changes each quarter, it fluctuates pretty widely.
JEFF PRESCOTT

Bringing a suit like that as a class-action is obviously designed to be sensational, get media atten...
JEFF PRESCOTT

We will defend ourselves vigorously against the allegations.
JEFF PRESCOTT

Bringing a lawsuit as a class action like that is simply designed to be sensational and get media at...
JEFF PRESCOTT

We are trying to contain the environmental damage.
JEFF PRESCOTT

We're the largest investor-owned health-care company in the country. We feel like it's incumbent on ...
JEFF PRESCOTT

He never had any relationship to the company to begin with. ... He never even practiced here. We spe...
JEFF PRESCOTT

We're committed to the hospital as an entity. The question is when, where and how will it be reconst...
JEFF PRESCOTT

Although the community as a whole is making great strides in trying to understand more about what po...
JAMES PRESCOTT

He seemed to be doing OK with his life.
JAMES PRESCOTT

He's a good kid and he's had his share of issues over the years.
JAMES PRESCOTT

You both make each other want to be better people, and that’s a feckin’ rare thing. Far too many...
R.J. PRESCOTT

How could you not? I do have a sense of humor.
HEIDI PRESCOTT

It's the ultimate in hunter cruelty.
HEIDI PRESCOTT

We want to nip it in the bud. The inaccuracy of someone hunting through a computer would lead to ani...
HEIDI PRESCOTT

We don't believe in hunting, but canned hunting is more egregious than hunting in the wild.
HEIDI PRESCOTT

We have major concerns about stocking animals for hunting. This practice should be banned.
HEIDI PRESCOTT

What we find so objectionable is that these public-service agencies are involving themselves in recr...
HEIDI PRESCOTT

We're seeing a lot of things that indicate to us an erosion of the public interest. It's an increase...
HEIDI PRESCOTT

The freshmen have contributed so much to this program and next year it's only going to get better. T...
LIZZY PRESCOTT

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one o...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you&...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

Greg is a throwback. Believe it or not, there are still kids out there who will not whine about blis...
TIM PRESCOTT

That's exactly what I expected to happen. Caribou came in off a huge win. They'd lost to us twice in...
TIM PRESCOTT

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman f...
COLONEL MUHAMMAR QADDAFI

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
COLONEL MUHAMMAR QADDAFI

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi...
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

Don't be against things so much as for things.
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o...
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS

We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.
COLONEL GERALD WELLMAN

Our estimate is about 2500 people were buried.
COLONEL RAUL FARNACIO

Some Germans may not have supported our war, but they supported us in other ways.
COLONEL BRADLEY DENISON

I don't think it's decreasing. There are poppies everywhere -- in places where there were no poppies...
COLONEL YOD SUK

All our soldiers are aged 18 to 50.
COLONEL YOD SUK

Don't try to explain it, just sell it.
COLONEL TOM PARKER

The troops pulled out because big boulders are cascading down the mountain.
COLONEL RAUL FARNACIO

Our geologists are studying the area for fear of mudslides. It was raining hard this morning.
COLONEL RAUL FARNACIO

The signs of movement may be falling rock or running water.
COLONEL RAUL FARNACIO

It's been raining hard since last night. My men immediately went to the area where the school was, b...
COLONEL RAUL FARNACIO

This is more economic than political. They needed to expand, and we were the only place they could g...
COLONEL BRADLEY DENISON

This isn't a normal base closing because there's so much history. There's a feeling of sadness that ...
COLONEL BRADLEY DENISON

We were given transport, communications. We were well equipped.
COLONEL ADOUM MARATIS

The Sudanese intelligence people were our contacts ... they were always dressed in civilian clothing...
COLONEL ADOUM MARATIS

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
W. B. PRESCOTT

A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and ...
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, ...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the min...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wantin...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be somethi...
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had d...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes fr...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

Multinational companies use their technological know-how in their foreign subsidiaries, so reciproca...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

We do believe there has been some injury at this point to the brain. The fact that he is not waking ...
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like so...
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little m...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

We want to see him wake up. There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is.
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

We are all hoping he'll be able to give us some indication as to what occurred. We don't know that h...
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

Certainly Mr. McCloy is going to have a tough course. We just don?t know at this point how things wi...
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

He's a critically ill patient.
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

We do believe there has been some injury to the brain.
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and ...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leader...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

If productivity grows, the economy does well.
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they wer...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?
SHERLEY MONDESIR-PRESCOTT

Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore...
COLONEL BRIAN D. PERRY SR.

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

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Colonel William Prescott

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.