Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

David Benelli

There will be a lot of police officers that will think this is another word for civilian review board.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Alessio Vinci

We saw roofs collapsed, we saw holes in the walls, quite extensive damage to the civilian population.

Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Jimmy Carter

Nigeria is the most influential country on the continent, and under a civilian leader who is freely elected by the people and trusted by the international community, I think Nigeria will be even more influential,

Ben Bernanke

Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.

Jack Roush

He's as cold-blooded as any driver I've ever worked with,

David Solin

I think it's just really hangover from that. The issue of U.S. interest rates and where we're going has been a pretty important driver for the dollar.

Carl Edwards

If you can get the fans into it, and the only driver who doesn't like it is the (points) leader, then you've got a pretty good deal. I'd like to see them use the same format (in the Busch Series.)

Davis III

I hit driver and 1-iron to 20 feet and made eagle.

Ricardo Gonzalez

I hit a good driver today and made a lot of fairways, and I think that is the key for a good round.

O. Singh

I played pretty well today. I hit my driver beautifully and had some good saves. It was just disappointing how I finished. Maybe I should have waited ... on the second putt from 5 feet. But who knows? I may have missed it tomorrow.

Stellan Skarsgard

In Hollywood you got work around you all the time. You can't get a taxi without that the driver hand you a script.

Jim Corridore

I'm not expecting it to be a major driver of earnings or a major help.

Danielle Patuto

This is my first child, she is handicapped, she is only 3 &#189, I'm sure she was very, very scared. That driver should have contacted the dispatch.

Craig Rigsbee

I think it's about 3,300 yards, and he's already got, I think, 2,000, so he's got eight games to get 1,300 yards, which isn't out of the realm of possibility for him.

David Mulder

He'll be out between four and eight weeks. But six weeks would be a good guesstimate.

Frank Degen

He's going to lose on eight of them, because he's past the three-year statute.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

Ross Stitt

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.

Pat Riley

I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.

Al Beye

I think all the players in that locker room think it can be done. But it's got to be everybody, not just eight of 10.

Len Lauer

I think it's six to eight months before we know,

D. H. Lawrence

It is not a pleasant epoch in one's life - the first forty eight hours at a large public school

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Walt Whitman

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

Roger Waters

We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.

Robin McKinley

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Robin McKinley

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Tim Gordon

I think what you see is nine very proud parents today because this is our baby.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

W. C. Fields

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

Charles B. Rangel

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Maddie Ziegler

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Greg Austin

It took 25 years to de-list the peregrine falcon. We are only at nine or 10 years and we have a long way to go.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.