Famous Quotes & Sayings

George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Gore Vidal

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

Cecelia Ahern

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Bethany McLean

The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.

Bill Vaughan

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Bill Vaughan

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Scott Pelley

The Army would have us believe that you were operating outside the rules.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Charles Thomson

The army... is now publicly declared to be for the purpose of enforcing obedience to the authority of Parliament.

William Lambert

While we would certainly prefer to be the single supplier of helmets to the Army, we realize that was unlikely to happen with this latest bid, given the military's desire to not limit production to an exclusive manufacturer.

Ani Difranco

We're all rehearsing for the presidency. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman-army.

Bryan Hilferty

I wouldnt brag too much about this one because its so small, but its still seven straight months.

Richard Petersen

I have a job to do, I'm an officer in the Army, and I've got my duty to do. We're truck drivers, we're targets -- big moving targets -- and it's scary.

Meggie Ford

For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire.

Thomas Collins

What Dr. Harvey has done is directed an Army-wide review of how we notify family members,

James Connolly

I feel terrible. I'd like to get out. I'm done with the army. I want to move on. My commitment was up last December but they extended the whole division until January 31, 2007,

Xun Zi

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

Constance Wu

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

David Hanson

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

Ariel Sharon

That will show if they are capable of running independence of their own and if they are capable of stopping terror ... That is where they are going to be checked if they can run a country or not.

Frank Tavani

That whole receiving corps works extremely hard, and they're all capable of making plays. Obviously, Brandon, but we've got guys that are capable of coming in and making those plays. It's a good group of kids.

Andy MacPhail

We have all the confidence in the world that he's capable of getting us to the World Series.

Matt Williams

We could have played with a little more intensity. We need to pick things up. We're not finishing on offense like we're capable of and it's frustrating.

Fabio Capello

We could have closed out the match in the first half. At the end, when the game did open up, we showed how we are capable of playing.

Mike Scioscia

We can't look at the standings. If we play the way we are capable of playing, we will reach our goal.

David Trachtenberg

We have the expertise to provide the Latino market with the Internet power and resources it needs and is ready to use.

Philip M. Parker

When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.

Matthew Stewart

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

Tom Starling

We get their expertise and their connections in the community, and they get to help.

Michael Nichols

It doesn't take technical expertise to shoot the Grand Canyon. It takes patience to get the right atmospherics and light.

Kofi Annan

We don't have money as the U.N., but we'll come with some expertise and experience,

Meg Symington

Because the U.S. conservation groups are participating, we are able to provide technical expertise regarding how these funds should be used and ... the most important places where they should be spent.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Ben Bostrom

The AMA has royally screwed up this time and they're going to have to fix it.

Wayne Wilkinson

That way, if for some reason the project doesn't get developed, we can go in and fix the property up.

Rory Stewart

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

John Finn

We were going to fix those things in our planning, ... We just ran out of time.

Eric Osmer

We've got one more goal. We'll focus on that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Derek Hall

We've learned what our weaknesses are, and we're going to fix them. No matter what.

Mark McKinnon

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

Steve Dunn

When the breakers go, we have to fix them immediately.

Blake Ahearn

You just can't do that. In the first half, especially, we struggled to be strong with the ball. We have to fix that.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.