Famous Quotes & Sayings

George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Gore Vidal

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

Cecelia Ahern

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Bethany McLean

The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.

Bill Vaughan

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Bill Vaughan

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Scott Pelley

The Army would have us believe that you were operating outside the rules.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Here I start out for the first time with a gun to my head, ... wanting to take my life and for the first time I'm on drugs and alcohol. I've lost my family. I've lost my job. It's the end-of-the-rope kind of thing.

Paul Quantrill

Gun for hire, ... Hopefully I can help out, and help these guys. I'm really just here to see if I can help out a little bit.

Jim Kennedy

I suspect that it will show the same individual and the same guns were used in all the shootings,

Robert Daskas

(It) confirms that the gun was used on Melissa in defendants' home.

Louis Graham

The people who are turning the guns in are not the problem,

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

Kevin Connors

He was sagging. No one said they saw the gun in his pocket. He couldn't stick a gun in his pants.

Wayne Delk

He was removing it from his pocket and had it in his hands when it went off. At some point when he was running, his gun discharged.

Amber Rose

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Diane von Furstenberg

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

Diane von Furstenberg

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

David Brooks

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

Dave Chappelle

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

David Schwimmer

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

David Miliband

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

David McCullough

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.