Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Nick Lowe

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

George Carey

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

George C. Marshall

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

Herman Melville

Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

Greg Mortenson

I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Afghanistan so far. Now take the cost of one of those missiles, tipped with a Raytheon guidance system, which I think is about $840,000. For that much money, you could build dozens of schools that could provide tens of thousands of students with a balanced, non extremist education over the course of a generation. Which do you think will make us more secure?

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Adolf Hitler

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Adolf Hitler

For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

Adolf Hitler

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Adolf Hitler

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Adolf Hitler

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Adolf Hitler

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Adolf Hitler

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Adolf Hitler

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Og Mandino

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.

Northrop Frye

Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.

Norman Mailer

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Pierre Omidyar

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Joel Osteen

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

Madeleine L'Engle

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

Lynne Truss

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.