Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Bond

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

George Casey

In a year from now, if there's not more battalions at Level One, I'll be concerned. Right now, I'm not,

Stephen Davis

They do not bring battalions - they bring the leadership, the financial man, the demolition expert,

David Petraeus

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.

Andy Yakulis

Basically, the battalion commander of any unit is responsible for anything that unit does or fails to do.

John Walsh

Sgt. Travis Arndt was a dedicated young infantry soldier doing a difficult job in a difficult time. We grieve his loss here in Iraq. ... The men of this battalion will not forget his contributions and his sacrifice and we will miss him dearly.

Dave Smith

Sir, our Iraqi partners have been conducting battalion and Brigade-size operations since April. They have been planning and coordinating with other Iraqi security forces, such as the Iraqi police and local government agencies, preparing for this referendum. Sir, we as coalition forces, we have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

John Towers

I see more soldiers daily than I did as a battalion commander.

Scott Lewis

I said, 'I want to talk to someone big,' ... Ten minutes later, we were with the battalion commander.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Michael Chertoff

We are extremely pleased with the response of every element of the federal government (and) all of our federal partners have made to this terrible tragedy,

Matthew Lewis

I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.

Megan Smith

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Tim Whitehead

It had every element of a great play from a great player.

Floyd Reese

It has always been a key element for us. We have never wavered from Day One. It's always been at the top of our list.

Tom O'Neil

It has all the elements that the Globe voters like. It has an important social message. It has A-list stars. It's part of the public debate.

Bruce Nudell

I think that there was an element of tiredness with all the recalls.

Daniel Bruhl

We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

Frank Lloyd

in 1943, many Germans went to the Wright household and held musicals.

Hubertus Pellengahr

For a long time, the Germans held the deutsche mark as a proof of normality, something that held them together.

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Norbert Lammert

The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this Remembrance Day.

Claudia Schiffer

The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

Gary Waddock

He knows that he's let the group down. I'll be looking at the incident and if he needs to be fined, he will be.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

Vernon Briggs

There is no group that has benefited less from immigration.

Jeff Moorad

We're open-minded about the profile. The group that we've identified tends to be a younger group, but also a group that has significant experience.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Michael Fields

Our offensive line is a senior-oriented group that is jelling. They do a heck of a job working together and making adjustments.

Paul Dergarabedian

In the past, movies like 'Bachelor Party' would come and go, and 'American Pie' did well, but right now a huge part of it is this group of very talented actors,

James Johnson

I'm not surprised; he's a tough young man. He was just an impressive young man, even then. He had a can-do attitude.

Kellan Lutz

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

Erin Hertzog

It's something impressive because it's something we could use in Arizona.

Kip Anderson

They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young and they are doing these things.

Lee Corso

They smacked that Oklahoma team (for the national title) in what was the single most impressive one-game performance I've ever seen.

Pat Dowling

For a while anyway, it is not going to be that visible a project. There is no one day that will be more impressive than another.

Todd Allen

It's the most impressive thing I've ever seen.

Wayne Thomas

It really looks impressive when they're all through. We've been doing that for a long time.

Jim Reed

It was the most impressive storm surge I've ever witnessed. We had plenty of wind as one might have imagined, but what left an indelible mark was the power of the water.

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

Maurice Luque

That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a recovery operation than a rescue.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

Charles Collins

Operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater systems have essentially been abandoned.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Tim Thomas

I don't want to say there's not a problem with that (waivers) portion of the CBA just because I made it through.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Rebecca West

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

Rebecca West

For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Robert Stack

It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Mike Bulmer

We think about this idea of a new world of work.