Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Justin Ramsey

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

Jeff Sessions

I am bitterly disappointed that Anniston Army Depot did not gain personnel from Red River Army Depot as the Defense Department had recommended,

James Barber

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

Bret Meyer

We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus, ... It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

Ruben Aguilar

In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Nick Swisher

Last year, I was horrible with the bases loaded. I was like, 'Oh, man, oh, man,' I'd get jittery. Now, I'm not the guy who's in trouble, it's the guy on the mound who's in trouble.

Sidney Ponson

I'm gonna try to lose a little bit, because I'm gonna be running the bases more here, need a little more flexibility and quickness. I have to learn how to do it anyway. I never did it in my life. It's a part of the game and I have to know it.

Jorge Posada

You've got to keep those guys who run off the bases and then see what happens, ... If we get a good chance to throw people out, we're going to throw people out.

Ramon Hernandez

You've got to get a strike -- it's bases loaded. He put wood on it and hit it out.

Joe Rodeghero

The game ended with a bases loaded, line-drive double play, so we were right there.

Kelvim Escobar

The fourth inning was what got me in trouble. You have to minimize things because you can't do too much with the bases loaded.

Hank Banner

The hitters we need are the ones who can deliver when the bases are loaded in the second inning of a close game.

Anand Gopal

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

Alexander Yakovenko

Effective measures are necessary to end the fighters' activities, liquidate their bases in Kosovo and reliably close the Kosovo section of the Yugoslav-Macedonian border and the Albanian-Macedonian border.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Dan Walters

I'd like to thank the Marine Corps for everything they do to protect our country,

Otto Schily

I suggest setting up a corps of specially trained European riot police that can work at an international level to de-escalate problems and, where needed, effectively quell violence.

Nancy Stoner

The corps is not following the law, and drinking water supplies, wildlife habitat and flood protection could be lost as a result.

Spiro Agnew

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Bob Johnson

I spent six years in the marine corps and I think I played three games of poker in those years, ... If we have an out-of-date ordinance, let's look at it and see if it needs to be changed.

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Carla Korbes

By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

Phil Klay

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Ian Michaels

It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Wes Johnson

A significant number of these were damaged. Some of our guys and gals didn't exactly know how to install them and damaged them during installation.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

John Garamendi

The problem is hidden. It's hidden in the electronics that have been damaged with water.

Matt Mitchell

We are in the process of rebuilding structures damaged by Hurricane Dennis.

Tom Ditt

They're taking a battering. We don't know what the damages are yet, but they're considerable.

Michael Robertson

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Bill Bailey

We've been looking at the numbers and wondering just how long we can sustain the kind of insured damages we've been getting. If insurance is not affordable, it's really not available.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Nancy Lewis

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

Kerry Sieh

If nothing ruptured, then that's really good news for the engineers who were trying to make it in fact so that it wouldn't.

Tim Powell

The military police were there to provide support to local law enforcement , and the engineers were used for search-and-recovery mission support and evacuation support ,

Bob Garrett

Engineers can start with our sample programs, which range from 'Hello World' to a Web server and network connection.

Jim Olson

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

Linda Smith

NASA will be looking to this next generation of explorers to help send humans back to the moon, then on to Mars and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to work side by side with NASA engineers in preparing for future expeditions to other worlds.

Steven Strogatz

That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate.

Og Mandino

Failure is... the highway to success.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Brian Riedl

Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.

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.

Ulysses S. Grant

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

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.

Robert E. Lee

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Sanford Bishop

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

Walter Bagehot

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Mark French

When he needed to be, he was very good. They had some quality scoring opportunities early, and he made some real nice stops.

Alyn McCauley

We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.

Norm Boyles

We made the plays when we needed to, and Tiffany buckled down when she needed to.

Lee Evans

I didn't win the game. That's the object when you go out there. That's really all there is to say. I didn't win, and I didn't step up when I needed to.

Tomi Pettinen

I didn't want to push myself too hard. I didn't want to pull a groin. I've done nothing for 10 days. I think I did just what was necessary, what I needed to do. On the ice, keep it simple.

Matt Silverman

He will not have any role in the operations of the business. He will be a resource as needed for the organization and he will be a big supporter and cheerleader for the organization.

Alex Sanchez

He was tough. There wasn't very much I could work on. After the first takedown, I realized I needed to pick it up or I wasn't going to make it.

Mike Gillespie

He (Tate) made plays. He got two big baskets for us when we needed it the most.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.