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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.


J. F. C. Fuller

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F. F. BRUCE If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi gr...
GRAHAM FULLER When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
THOMAS FULLER In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
THOMAS FULLER Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
THOMAS FULLER Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER