#flee

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#fleeting #frozen #i #moment

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty-fleeting #soul #superficiality #wisdom #beauty

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#because #day #fleeting #gone #happiness

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. ↗

— Robert Orben

#choices #crisis #fight #flee #had

...and you thought beauty was the outward show - but now you know the truth, my Love - it's always been the inner fire... ↗

— John Geddes

#fleeting #inner-beauty #beauty

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#beginning #fleeting #learn #live #might

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

#fleeting #fragile #glorious #glory #goes

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#based #come #countries #economic #economic policies