Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

Wole Soyinka

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

John Reid

The armed forces of both India and the UK pride themselves on excellence, and the increase in the number of joint exercises and training opportunities between the two countries will only serve to strengthen that relationship further,

Pranab Mukherjee

The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.

Ollanta Humala

The armed forces aren't demanding a favor. They are demanding their rights.

Alejandro Toledo

The armed forces and the police should be subordinated to the authority elected by the popular sovereignty.

Sebastian Junger

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

Judy White

That would be a good time for people to make donations to the Red Cross or United Way in memory of those who have lost their lives due to Hurricane Katrina or in honor of our local people who help us every day like our volunteers, firefighters, members of the armed forces, or other disaster assistance groups.

Yevgeny Primakov

We have worked out a certain program which we believe could avoid an armed confrontation and eventually eliminate this crisis, ... This program is conditioned on the fact that Iraq comply with the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

Frank Armstrong

Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.

John Whiting

We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace.

Chris McGinnis

Yeah, it's good. No one should have a problem with it unless you're hiding something.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Frank Armstrong

Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.

John Whiting

We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Karen Brown

I always hide under the characters. Maybe I went to that place, but I wasn't that character.

Jay Garner

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

Kristin Runger

If they can look at somebody else's report, they could hide things better.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Farid Abdulkadir

There is no need to hide the reality from the world.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Cecil Beaton

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Antonia Thomas

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

Akbar Rafsanjani

Why try to untie a knot with your teeth if you can do it with your hands?

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.