Dashing Quotes - page 2

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient). (Joe Klein)
What is the light from yon deep wood flashing - What the sound on the wild wind borne ? What the dark ranks that are onwards dashing To the voice of the pealing horn ? Who are they that thundering go ? - It is the Black Hunt of the bold Litzou ! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but-. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. View quote
Russell Baker
Monty was not such a dashing, romantic figure as his opponent; nor would you find him leading a forlorn hope in person, for the simple reason that if he was in command forlorn hopes did not occur. He had an extraordinary capacity for putting his finger straight on the essentials of any problem, and of being able to explain them simply and clearly. He planned all his battles most carefully - and then put them out of his mind every night. I believe he was awakened in the night only half a dozen times during the whole war. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein