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.

Richard Dawkins

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

George Baker

I wouldn't say it's futile -- the opportunity is there. It's worthwhile to keep fighting to save the resources we have there.

Jens Orback

I think it is very problematic and unfortunate that people who have been in Sweden for so long make proposals such as this that are so opposed to our intentions, when we are fighting for women's rights and the right to divorce.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Eric Price

He's healthy. He's probably a lot healthier now than he was a year ago at this time. He was fighting (the groin injury) most of the season last year. It got to be 100 percent during the spring, but it's been off-and-on since. Now he's putting a string together of good days. I don't want to jinx him, but he's doing a great job.

Dana Altman

I thought we showed a lot of resiliency and toughness in fighting back. We were in trouble, obviously.

Mike Morris

It is hard. A lot of guys are fighting for the same spots and it might be from the same teams, so it is kind of hard.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.

Joerg Haider

We are fighting for a free-market economy. This means we want to open our economy, which is heavily protected by the state.

Sen Hanna

I think things happen for a reason. Instead of fighting and being disappointed, now I'm free to do what I really want to do.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

Yukio Mishima

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

John Calvin

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Charlaine Harris

I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

Benjamin Franklin

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Brandon Sanderson

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Jane Fonda

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.