Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Odom

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

William Manchester

The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capitals only Warsaw suffered more.

Roger Corman

The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. They're competing with us. And television is a huge target for young people. So we don't quite have the monopoly on young writers, directors, producers and actors that we formerly did.

Laura Bush

They understood that the sacrifices of allied forces would mean nothing unless we used our victory to help the Japanese people transform their nation from tyranny to freedom, ... There were many doubters. American and Japanese experts claimed that the Japanese weren't ready for democracy.

Randy Charles

Our editors spend their time ... trying to figure out what new allied health-care disciplines are coming into existence. We want to be there first as a publisher of educational materials.

Jamie Shea

Operation Allied Force will continue until those conditions have been fulfilled and fulfilled in full.

Michel Lu

The six allied countries have received invitations from Beijing but they have certainly decided not to go.

Jamie Shea

This is something we have noted coming from the tribunal today, but it does not change the intensity and momentum of Operation Allied Force.

Scott Anderson

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

William Shakespeare

A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.

William Cole

A hundred standing people smiling and talking to one another, nodding like gooney birds.

Colby Armstrong

A hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable.

Jami Attenberg

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Chelsea Clinton

Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Walid Jumblatt

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Mark Kimmitt

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

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.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Rick Riordan

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFF's with Hitler?" Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. "BFF's?" "Never mind." "I'd love to see the Trevi Fountain," she said. "There's a fountain on every block," Leo grumbled. "Or the Spanish Steps," Hazel said. "Why would you come to Italy to see Spanosh steps?" Leo asked. "That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?" "You're hopeless," Hazel complained. "So I've been told.