Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Perle

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

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Richard M. Nixon

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Robin Cook

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Van Jones

It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

Robert Jay Lifton

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

English 14th Century Proverbs

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

Tryon Edwards

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Tori Amos

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

William Peter Blatty

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

Kevin Towers

I really think the Devil Rays rushed him to the big leagues, and that set him back. He's a power pitcher with a great change-up. ... He has a world of potential, but we need to be patient with him. If we do this right, he could be a really good pitcher for us.

Joni Mitchell

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

James Joyce

God made food; the devil the cooks.

Neil Gaiman

The devil made me do it" I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do not live their lives for them.

John Felmy

The devil is in the details. We have a well functioning system now. It is a question of cost. Where is the product going to come from?

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

William Strunk, Jr.

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

Charles Ramsey

I'm not getting into the details of what we know, when we first found out and all that sort of thing. That would be inappropriate,

Dennis Smith

It's under investigation and there really aren't any details we can release.

Herb Guenther

It's still fragile. The devil is still in the details, so we're putting the details together.

John Faso

It's an example of one of the contrasts between us. I have much more intimate knowledge of the details of New York state.