Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Umberto Eco

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Umberto Eco

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Promod Haque

What we don't want is to have someone dedicated to solely doing a deal in China or India or wherever, and then they're all by themselves.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

Zhou Xiaochuan

I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

Xinhua Agency

Otherwise, China will face another big increase in population and more pressure on its resources and environment.

Yang Jiechi

President Bush's visit has greatly increased mutual understanding, deepened mutual trust and strengthened co-operation between China and the United States ,

Jim Collins

Part of the path higher has been helped by the news from China that they don't plan to lighten their load of Treasuries.

Leo Fender

I was always able to see the defects in the design of an instrument which overlooked completely the need of its maintenance.

Robert Bohn

The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.

Lance Henriksen

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Jacques Maritain

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Phil Crosby

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Honore de

They must have the defects of their qualities.

Kent Beck

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

Sathya Baba

What is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.