Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.

Austin Stowell

I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.

Svetozar Marovic

I also wish to say that this is really the time of expected reforms and necessary changes. The State Union bodies surely have their share of responsibilities and commitments in that process. One of our main tasks, subject to a responsible role and contribution by the member states, will be the reform of the Armed Forces of Montenegro and Serbia.

Robert Taggart

He comes armed with a gun and starts shooting at the crowd, ... Why he opened fire is quite a mystery to us.

Stephen Kinzer

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Ron Moran

The only things officers are asking for until they are armed is RCMP backup when there's a potentially armed-and-dangerous person heading for the border.

Capt. Spirlet

He's definitely considered armed and dangerous and has extremely violent tendencies.

Rory Kennedy

I think the most significant turning point was when the militia was brought in. A few armed men and women couldn't take on the Pennsylvania militia.

Jamie Shea

Last night, NATO had a night of relative restraint. We were mindful of the Orthodox Easter celebration. At the same time, the Yugoslav armed forces continued to demonstrate signs of wear and tear.

Gianfranco Fini

Italian prosecutors have the right and duty to verify responsibility and possible guilt.

Eliot Spitzer

What we have is a fundamental violation of the rights of shareholders and a violation of the duty of mutual funds to protect the interests of long-term shareholders,

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser, ... But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

Diana Medina

We supply food and medication to our customers, and thought that duty was greater.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Randy Sharp

He's just there for everything I need. He never forces himself on me, which is very sweet. He waits for me to come to him.

Claude Bolton

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Jonathan Turley

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Jalal Talabani

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Shakira

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

Sean White

I think the intense level was a lot higher tonight because it is the playoffs.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Billy Donovan

I think you can take seeding in the SEC and NCAA Tournament and throw it out the window. If you're not a No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the first round, to me there is no real big advantage. And I think sometimes people get wrapped up in a seed and say the higher seed should win.

Billy Donovan

I think you can (take) seeding in the SEC and NCAA Tournament and throw it out the window. If you're not a No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the first round, to me there is no real big advantage. And I think sometimes people get wrapped up in a seed and say the higher seed should win.

Roland Allen

What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Kofi Annan

I think it is important that the leaders stay the course.

Myles Munroe

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Clinton Portis

Having that one losing season made me take on more of a leadership role,

Jeff Gaucher

Her senior leadership has really made a difference. She has the mentality that she's going to get her points. She's going to do what she has to.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

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.

Shawne Merriman

I wouldn't be paying what I'm going to end up paying just for LaVar's number.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Wayne Jones

I think it's a poor policy. You pay for something, you should get it. Somebody who does that should be prosecuted.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Robert Cray

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

Russell B. Long

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

Russell Baker

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Russell Brand

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Ron Otto

He could be a monster. He's a powerful, powerful pup.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Jorge Ramos

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Amy Smith

I was without power for six days, so I thought I would get a little break. I was really surprised at how much more I'm paying.

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

Richard Rohr

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

William Gurnall

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

Wassily Kandinsky

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Wendell Berry

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

Wynton Marsalis

The bandstand is a sacred place.

Neale Donald Walsch

The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

Daya Master

The three sailors died. One Sea Tiger cadre was injured.

Lloyd Alexander

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Bill Watterson

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

Horace

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Mark Kimmitt

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

Gerhard Schroeder

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Ian Johnson

I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

David Tillinghast

It is a crime. It's rape. And we treat it that way.

Eric Peterson

We treat everyone the same way, and there's no exception.

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Tony Dungy

He's getting treatment every day and it'll probably be a game-time decision,

Aaron Hill

We may not be the richest, but we know how to treat our residents,

Tricia Helfer

I do like to treat myself, I just don't do it very often.

Wayne Dyer

I never ever felt that I was unfairly treated.

Saint Basil

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

Jim Rash

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

William S. Burroughs

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Rob Bell

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Warren Buffett

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Zadie Smith

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Tiara Cook

I need to get in the weight room. She is good.

Julie Newmar

I'm magnificent! I'm 5' 11" and I weigh 135 pounds, and I look like a racehorse.