Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Cumming

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Edmund Burke

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

Brandon Sanderson

It's like a banana farm for guns!

Benito Mussolini

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Benjamin Franklin

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.

Al Capone

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Al Capone

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Gore

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Jan Brewer

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Brady Corbet

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

Anatole France

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

Raul Julia

Thank God for the theater.

Thomas Hearns

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

Shahrukh Khan

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

Max Azria

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Garth Brooks

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

Pietro Mascagni

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

Eartha Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

Edward Leigh

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.