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

At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.

Colin Powell

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

Colin Powell

We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.

Colin Powell

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

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.

David Nicholls

For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

Gordon Tietjens

Even the night before the finals, he wanted to have a big curry or something.

Bobby Collins

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

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

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

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.

Karl Turner

It seems like to me, police made a lot of procedural errors.

Nikolai Shepel

They took back roads and there may have been no police posts, so that's why they got through without obstacles,

John Campbell

They said, 'we could protect you if you'll tell us what you know,' ... But she said, 'I don't know anything,' and left. There is no allegation that the police took any affirmative step at all to provide protection.

Matt Strauss

It's the No. 1 destination for police in Price Hill.

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.

Kati Wilhelm

That was the worst 15 km ever in my life.

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,