Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Shelton

I think the prospect for casualties remains very real and high, ... There is no such thing as a risk-free military operation.

Doris Goodwin

I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.

Doug Brooks

If you sit still for a few minutes, the insurgents will have time to figure out where you are, that you are a Westerner, and take you out. A lot of the casualties are from situations like that.

Andrew Krepinevich

The insurgency is still mounting an effort comparable to where they were a year ago. We do something we think will change things, but a month or two later casualties and the level of violence are back to where they were.

Phil Klay

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

John Buford

The enemy was too strong for me, but he was severely punished for his obstinacy. His casualties were more than quadruple mine.

Kerry Emanuel

The damage and casualties produced by more intense storms could increase considerably in the future.

Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Madeline Albright

They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Robert E. Lee

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

Robert Crippen

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Perle

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Russell Baker

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Kevin Rand

We're taking our time with him. He's too valuable a prospect not to take your time with him. We want to make sure everything's done right and he can come back as well as can be expected.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Kenichiro Sasae

There has been no breakthrough to this point, and the prospect is not bright.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

John Schuerholz

His compensation, which is private, remains the same.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Margot Fonteyn

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Ted Hughes

What happened casually remains -

Dan Daly

I think we've just got to take a risk and go to the council.

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Source Unknown

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

Robert Collier

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Richelle Mead

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Richelle Mead

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

Richard Bach

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.

Rose McGowan

I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.