Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Brinkley

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Suliman Baldo

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Gary Fife

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

Samina Ahmed

It would have made a difference if he had been elected president. It might have even made a difference if he had given up his title of chief of army staff,

Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Louis Caldera

Earlier this year, our Army Center for Military History did a search and found nothing in the official records that substantiates the claims that U.S. Army soldiers perpetrated such massacres,

Helen Olafsdottir

First reports from the army only mentioned a hand grenade explosion, but our monitors found while in the hospital that they had been shot behind the ears execution style.

Tom Headley

First, we created a map and driving guide of Braddock's Road, which follows the route that his army took from Fort Necessity to Braddock. We published 10,000 of these maps and distributed most of them through Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau sites, county welcome sites, and through the Westmoreland County Federated Library System.

Jake Smith

At this point, I'm not sure if I'm going to want to make the army a career. I'm just excited and honored to have been accepted. It's a great opportunity for me and a privilege.

Gary Fife

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

Liz Smith

It's certainly not my hope I'm replacing the irreplaceable Army. I've known him forever. He's a great, great guy.

Ken Jones

We had a plan for when he got out of the Army,

Richard Boucher

so-called National Liberation Army, which has threatened civilians and deliberately puts civilians into jeopardy.

Bible Bible

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

Elizabeth Economy

We see lots of bluster from the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and the Pentagon. But at the very top levels of government on both sides there is a consistent acknowledgement that this is one of the most important relationships for global stability.

David Novak

The southeast division of the Bureau of Prisons is in total disarray, ... I could eat my words but I'd be shocked if they did (assign Stewart to Coleman).

Robert Baer

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Muhammad Ali

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Larry Simmons

It's my understanding that we're holding them at the request of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. Since we're holding them for a state agency, we'll wait for the state agency's direction on how to dispose of them.

Leon Trotsky

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Judy Davis

Our daughter has learned her lesson. She learned it the first day she was in county jail. A long sentence is just not appropriate on first-time offenders.

John Murray

Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

Paul Hatch

Somerset County has the potential and the natural resources to be a real shining star in northern New England for recreational tourism.

Josh Liss

Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges trained. We'd also like to take it around the county and demonstrate it to the voters so that when they walk into the polling place for the first time it's not the first time they've seen the equipment.

Teri Pope

Sometimes one part of the county was getting snow. And other parts were not getting it.

John Karevoll

San Diego is the county that is kind of the furthest off into this uncharted statistical territory, so everybody's wondering what is going to happen locally. The big question there is will prices decline significantly or will they flatten out.

Teri Pope

The road will stay completely in Hall County where now it gets down into Gwinnett County.

Joe Layne

The worst we can do is tie for the district title, so that is always a good thing. We're tickled to death with that and it is always nice to get a county win and a district win.

Patrick Young

This is not Selma, Alabama, but we could see that even on Long Island, until Suffolk County faced the threat of federal intervention, it did not live up to its obligations.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Edward Carey

I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

Kage Baker

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.

Martin Jol

We did it. We pressed them all the time, we created chances. The only thing we could be disappointed about is that we didn't score more than one goal.

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Atharva Veda

The Creator Himself has created the universe; He Himself shall destroy it.

Richard Rorty

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our senstivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginialize people different from ourselves by thinking, 'They do not feel as WE would,' or 'There must always be suffering, so why not let THEM suffer?'

John Walsh

As far as tourist season, we plan our projects to minimize impact ... because you're driving 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles a day through our office,

Jim Raper

Our driving force is to do an extremely high-quality job for the lowest possible price. Ultimately, that saves our taxpayers money.

Larry Starkey

People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it isn't.

Richard Friend

And that won't be easy on this tight driving track.

Georg Hackl

The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the seeded group at the Olympics.

Richard Grasso

A day doesn't go by when the market isn't on the most skittish and volatile path that I've seen in my 35 years at the Big Board. What's driving that is the simple insecurity, or if you will uncertainty of outcome.

Laila Robins

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

Debra Wilson

My driving force is spirituality.

Sophie B. Hawkins

'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.

Giordano Bruno

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.

Dilip Shanghvi

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Erich Fromm

Infantile love follows the principle: ""I love because I am loved."" Mature love follows the principle: ""I am loved because I love."" Immature love says: ""I love you because I need you."" Mature love says: ""I need you because I love you.

David Hunter

It's usually a good indicator, the tourist market, and the property market follows that.

Billie Armstrong

It's the new 'Thriller,' ... 'Jesus of Suburbia' is really a long song, so already it's quite a task. You can't think of it as making a video, but a short film, and that's what Sam did. There's dialogue. It follows the story of the song more so than the other videos from American Idiot.

Andy Reid

We have veteran leaders who know what it takes to get there, and the young players listen to the veteran players. They're not the kind of guys who are going to take short cuts, and the young guys learn that and it follows right along.

Fede Alvarez

Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Don Hill

Not working is a luxury, ... I feel fortunate to do the things I want to do.

Martin Brodeur

I've played enough in the NHL to know most of these guys. Most of the time I know their tendencies. I've been lucky. I've been fortunate to make some saves and help us win some games.

Jaycee Carroll

I've been very fortunate two years in a row. I couldn't be happier. ... The one thing I remember about last year's tournament, it was a little too short. I know everyone wants to come and compete.

Sean Connery

I've been very fortunate and have never had any real problems with people. But I've also had the guts to tell them, 'you're a bore'.

John Steinhilber

That's why we do conditioning. That helped us in the overtimes. It was an odd night, and we are fortunate to get a tough road win.

Herb Sendek

That's from a guy with a lot of experience. We were really fortunate he was able to come back. He was really ready to play tonight.

Al Bernstein

That's fortunate for the rest of us, because if it wasn't, Gil would have won it every year.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Eleanor Catton

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much but just guided them down the field.

M. Russell Ballard

Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.

Joe Randa

You can't guide it. If you hit it hard at somebody, there's nothing you can do.

Tal Wold

Our seniors are going to have to guide us the rest of the way.

Joyce Cary

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Lynda Barry

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

Brandon Jenner

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Kevin Conroy

We know the programming guide has played a very important role to date. I don't think there's any reason that's going to change.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Annie Dillard

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

Kevin O'Connor

We're able to map 15 million users in the United States,

Nancy Greene

I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

Ayatollah Khomeini

must be wiped out from the map of the world.

Mike Horner

Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right.

Linda Miller

One product can get you on the map but it doesn't necessarily keep you on the map.

Pat Hill

That's the way the road map is for a school like ours, ... That's what we've got to do to have the kind of program we want.

Jeff Smith

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

Jeff Vandermeer

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wisely started with a map.

Mike Horner

Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right.

Jeff Smith

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

Jeff Vandermeer

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wisely started with a map.

Adrienne Rich

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Publius Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

John Diaz

I don't see it as a necessity to run them.

Arnold H. Glasow

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Toby Hall

It's a new route we need to take,

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.