Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chandra Fernando

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

Bryan Whitman

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Connie Maina

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

Ra'anan Gissin

It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.

Raziq Bugti

The number of casualties and the damage suggest that there could have been more than one landmine but we have not confirmed that at this stage.

Kevin White

They are taking on volunteers who can stand the rigors, ... Some of the volunteers are sleeping on the floor. They don't want people to go down there and become casualties themselves. The people who aren't able to withstand those difficulties are probably better suited to stay here and help out.

Ike Skelton

As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion's worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Steve Boylan

As in any time when our operations are very proactive and going out after the terrorists groups, the insurgent groups, there is always the possibility that our casualties will go up,

Nazir Foead

These 10 elephants are the latest casualties in the escalating human-elephant conflict in central Sumatra, the direct result of uncontrolled destruction of their forest habitat.

Thomas Johnson

This man questioned a maneuver commander in the field. It is a slap in the face to all of us. He should know the uproar is just-caused.

Amy Walter

They're running for Congress, not commander in chief. Obviously, Iraq's an important issue, but at the same time, they need be able to talk about healthcare, the economy, gas prices.

Gloria Arroyo

As commander in chief, I control the situation.

John Edward

Decisive. Strong. Is this not what we need in a commander in chief?

Charles Gittins

Commander Waddle exercised his judgment, and he did his level best. He may have fallen short on that day, but it wasn't criminal.

Rod Lurie

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for two decades. I'm excited to see how much he will electrify Commander in Chief.

Bryan Whitman

We don't want to take unnecessary risk. We do make sure that when we exercise military force we use the right resources, sufficient to get the job done. It is a decision made by the commander on the ground,

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

John Bolton

As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

Anders Lindall

It's a step in the right direction, but it's only a fraction of what's critically needed. We need to see a more sizable increase in front-line staff.

Ralph Neas

This is a critically important vote, and it will be something that all progressive organizations will remember forever.

Paul Catoe

This is a critically important step in the process.

Steve Scruggs

This position is critically important to the future of our community.

Michael Kostelnik

The space shuttle is critically dependent on what we intend to do with the international space station and those requirements are still being worked out.

David Ogden Stiers

I've only got about a 3-hour window for recording. After the two-and-a-half hour mark, you can't hear critically what you're doing anymore.

Russell Lewis

These elements are critically important in relation to feeding horses.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Akio Morita

the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

Chris Avellone

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

China Mieville

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Edward Gibbon

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.

Edward Gibbon

Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.

Edith Wharton

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

Edith Wharton

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

Edith Wharton

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

David Hilbert

Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples.

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Marian Seldes

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

O. Singh

Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.

Brendan Shanahan

As much as we're known for our goal-scoring, we're very strong defensively, so I think that we can do the same to them and stifle their offense.

Rudy Giuliani

All of us will miss him at Yankee Stadium, ... We were all uplifted for having known him.

Tommy Johnson

It's a serious problem from our standpoint. We wish we'd known about it sooner.

Benjamin Franklin

For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

Lucas Piatt

This is the 'put up or shut up' opportunity. We have to do it now, or Pittsburgh will be known for one project that never got off the ground. We need to stop talking about it.

Tim Baldwin

It wasn't something that was known to us.