Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Liang Guanglie

China-US military relations, an important part of overall relations, have seen an increase in exchanges.

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

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 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.

Ehud Olmert

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Eduardo Galeano

The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Ayn Rand

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

Daniel Ellsberg

It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Edward Snowden

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

Angus King

What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

Andrew Weil

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

Anatoly Chubais

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

Steve Wozniak

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.