#contact

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Colin Powell

#contact #enemy #plan #survives

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#especially #fashion #fast #go #how

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contact #distraction #good #gratifying #i

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

#available #based #cia #concerns #contacts

Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#agency #case #cases #contact #follow

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ↗

— Washington Irving

#communion #contact #dignity #dreads #healthful

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#come #contact #electrical #into #occurs

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#contact #hope #i #man #noah

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#chance #contact #elected #fair #fair chance

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#freethinking #skepticism #nobility