Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Abdallah II of Jordan

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

Clara Barton

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Duane G. Carey

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

Donald Trump

I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Miley Cyrus

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

Daniel H. Pink

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Barry Gibb

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Nick Fazekas

When I don't see a double-team I have a big smile on my face. I know it will be a long night for the other team.

Earl Nightingale

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Brian Brandtner

We tried to stay with him all night. I thought every 3-pointer they took was contested.

Don Rickles

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Luis Rivera

They feel that a lot of times they can't trust the police.

Alan Beck

There were a lot of police resources down there.

Daisy Hernandez

I totally don't like the police out there. It's making us feel uncomfortable. We feel on the edge. They are making us feel like criminals.

Glenn King

It's a jungle, and it's dog-eat-dog. When you see the police doing the same thing the looters are doing, it tells me you're going to have to fend for yourself.

Dusty Baker

They police themselves, but they don't police themselves the way we used to police ourselves.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Fanny Kemble

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Jay Leno

Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.

Jonathan Swift

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Robert Brown

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

Mark Victor Hansen

Even in the worst depression, 25% of businesses are booming - in your industry find out what they’re doing and do it.

Gustave Flaubert

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Tom Wopat

It's not the worst thing in the world,

Bryan Stevenson

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?