Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moshe Dayan

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

Moshe Dayan

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

Mother Jones

I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.

Peter Ustinov

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Shimon Peres

Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.

Joseph de Maistre

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Langston Hughes

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

Linda Ronstadt

I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much,

Kofi Annan

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Kim Jong Il

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Joseph Nye

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Julius Caesar

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Oswald Spengler

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Otto von Bismarck

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Oscar Peterson

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.

Kami Garcia

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

Paul Krugman

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

Paullina Simons

And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.

Paul von Hindenburg

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

Karen Morley

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

George Kennedy

A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

Elvis Presley

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Elvis Presley

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Jimmy Fallon

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

Jimmy Page

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Jimmy Page

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Jim Talent

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Louise Hay

I choose to open my arms to all the good that life has in store for me.

Mao Zedong

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

Mao Zedong

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

Mao Zedong

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Mao Zedong

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.