Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Nicholson

The people that are over in the combat theaters are about half from the Reserve components,

Robert Ingersoll

I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast

John Reid

In any theatre of combat in the world where there are competing factions at war, there is always the problem about split loyalties,

Ricardo Guedes

The majority of the population thinks that he knew about corruption and is not taking the correct steps to combat it.

Jim Webb

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Nelson Oduber

Aruba is not Cuba, North Korea or Iraq. We are friends with America. Most tourists come from the United States and we work together to combat drugs criminality and money laundering,

Janis Karpinski

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.

James F. Amos

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

Don King

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Margaret Levens

Just to watch the smile on his face when a chopper flew over. He died doing what he wanted. That was his passion and I know he was happy.

Michael Arrington

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

Pat Lewis

I always come on the holidays. We're like family. And Easter is a time of family gathering. God gave us his only son to show us he was our living savior. His son died for our sins and rose again, and that's really important. It's a day to give thanks to God.

Craig Reid

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

Suzanne Fields

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

Nikki Sixx

I'd like to respond to rumors that I died yesterday ... I mean, c'mon, be patient! My day will come but it hasn't yet!

Mark Twain

I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.

William J. Clinton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Richard M. Nixon

This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.

Richard M. Nixon

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Rich Sommer

Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

Robert Charles Winthrop

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robin Hayes

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

Samuel Johnson

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Walt Whitman

The real war will never get in the books.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

John Shadegg

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

Kitty Wright

I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that they're gone, they're missing them.

Ted Parrish

I think they will make their numbers. I can't see them missing and not pre-announcing this time,

Kami Hebert

I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title.

Taylor Twellman

I was just trying to make sure the goalie didn't punch me in the head. I wanted to make up for missing in the first half.

Alan Trammel

When they get a pitch to hit, ... they're not missing it.

Jeff Tedford

He was suspended for the first quarter for missing the meeting,

Rob Thomas

Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Rose McIver

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

Vincente Minnelli

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

Woody Allen

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

Samantha Barks

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Rob McClure

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

Michael Learned

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

Kurt Fuller

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

James Frain

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

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.

Robert E. Lee

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

Robert E. Lee

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

Robert E. Lee

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

Robert E. Lee

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Robert Cray

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

Leonard Cohen

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Thomas Jefferson

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

Sherman Alexie

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.

Matthew Henry

God warns before he wounds.

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.