Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Stevenson

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

William Butler Yeats

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Epictetus

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Paul Simonon

You're only as old as you feel.

Ovid

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Lucy Lawless

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

Richard Hatch

I was always curious about-not actors-but I was always enthralled by the communication industry. TV, movie, film-all that stuff.

Patrick Fitzgerald

I would welcome such a communication reaffirming Mr. Libby's waiver.

Scott Cleland

GTE and BT have had discussions in the past, ... There are open lines of communication.

Ken Tyler

Have I made mistakes? Yes. Have there been communication breakdowns this year at Shepherd? Yes, and I take responsibility.

Ratu Bokini

It is a good thing that they are meeting and discussing the issue. That is the only thing to do in times of trouble, communication is a very important element in solving differences.

Viola Spolin

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

William J. Clinton

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

Riccardo Muti

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

Red Auerbach

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Yubaraj Sangroula

He can use the time to make covert manipulations. He can try to divide the parties, he can even use the army again.

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.

Wesley Clark

He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced. We don't tolerate that in modern American society. We certainly didn't tolerate it in the U.S. Army and we don't tolerate it here. It's wrong.

Jane Harman

It clearly is not a pretty picture. I commend the Army for taking a hard, comprehensive look at how soldiers behave towards each other.

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.

Thomas Collins

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

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.

Steven Berman

I was a captain in the Army. I was told leaders lead. The problem is that a lot of elected officials are chicken.

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,