Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergei Ivanov

This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen,

Greg Vaughn

There was no question that he loved me, ... But he couldn't get the words out, 'I love you. Son, I really am proud of you.' And he just couldn't get his arms around me.

Johnny Damon

There was no pain whatsoever. I loosened up and threw the ball fine. I'm going to go at it the way I have to. If I have to make the throw I'll do it. I'm not too concerned about it. My arm feels good.

There were more nerves than the first time I pitched in Safeco Field. I wasn't sure how the arm would be. I'd heard so many stories about people coming back and their arms blowing out their first time out.

There were lots of elements showing a mix, if I can call it that, between Islamic militants and armed robbers.

There were arms all over him. We probably got fouled a bunch of different places, but he is so big he was still able to get it up there.

There was that big arm and his competitiveness. He's a tough kid. He's going to be a player.

There is, obviously, sufficient body armor for every deployed service member.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world's most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force,

The report by the US State Department has turned a blind eye to China's considerable efforts in the field of arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation,

Brian Cashman

There's a 93-percent success rate in these surgeries. We were going with the odds there. If he's right and healthy we're going to have a power arm for the stretch drive that's not going to cost us talent from our system.

This is the only courthouse in the state of Florida where judges and court personnel are not escorted by armed bailiffs.

This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a better owner.

It's a delicate situation. Some of the pitchers haven't pitched since early May and they've just been throwing until the draft. They've got to get those arms ready to pitch again.

It's a great deal. A joint venture doesn't cost (AT&T) as much as a merger would and it gets them into homes and businesses. Michael Armstrong is trying to win the battle from a different angle.

It's a huge potential market. I just can't get my arms around how big this can get.

It's a high risk, flashy offense where you can make a big play, but when you throw the ball a lot bad stuff can happen. Kevin has the hardest job out there with all the reads, but he has a very strong arm and he's really going to flourish. We can spread the ball around to a lot of different guys and we have some backs that can pound the ball inside. We'll see, but it should be fun.

It's all about mechanics. I know what I'm doing. It's a matter of getting it right on the field. I'm rushing my body and my arm is late.

I told them he was armed and dangerous, he didn't care.

I told them at halftime that the reason the game was close was that we weren't playing defense. We were playing defense with our arms instead of moving our feet.

This is the last MASH unit in the United States Army. We are excited that this MASH will live on in Pakistan.

This is very important and exciting research because it provides compelling physical evidence for the impact of louse-borne diseases on Grand Army troops during Napoleon's invasion of, and retreat from, Russia.

This is the way cults recruit. To a certain extent ... this is the way armies recruit.

They're something that reps in the field can get their arms around.

They're both tough as nails. I'm glad we have more than one pitcher. We don't have to rely on one arm the entire season ... and you're a little more relaxed going into each game, knowing that if one of them gets in trouble, the other is always there.

They're both quality pitchers. After that, we're not yet sure who we'll go with, but we're going to be throwing a lot of arms in the opening weekend.

They?re all pretty equal. They throw strikes, so hopefully we won?t walk people. If guys throw complete games great, but if they don?t we have arms that can come in and help us.

They reached that point without army occupancy and it is important that they accomplished it themselves because the Iranians can say they did something great and did it on their own to future generations. It gives the country dignity.

Judith Rodin

There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.

There's an intangibility factor with Stan. It's like having a second father or grandfather, or a favorite uncle who puts his arm around you.

Jason Stearns

There's a need for a neutral force to calm the population. The Congolese army is a nascent, fledgling force. MONUC fulfills the task.

There's an army of CN vehicles here with equipment to fix their track, and yet we're fending on our own here,

Jay Wright

There was a lot of security for our team, and the teams from Great Britain and Israel, ... We had armed security guards and soldiers with machine guns with us at all times. That was a wakeup call.