Famous Quotes & Sayings

At least Jacob is prepared and armed and surrounded by guys who are there to protect him. Which a lot more than we are just walking down the street.

Lee Child

It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.

It's a 24-hour operation. We've got a virtual army out there.

D. H. Lawrence

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

It was early in the 1983 season and my arm just popped and I couldn't even raise it. The umpire told me that people had said it for eight years that it would happen. A lot of the young players had tears in their eyes, which made me feel bad. I told them I had been there for a long time.

Dave Roberts

It was so bang-bang, I had no idea what happened or what caused the ball to be loose, ... All I knew was I looked down, saw the ball going through my arms and off my body and we'd won.

It was such a great thing for the kids. They came from all backgrounds, all different income levels and by the end of the session it was like, arms around each other singing camp songs.

It was running up there. He has a strong arm and a great bounce back. We knew that he was at 81 pitches through four innings and we warned him about his pitch count, but he wanted to finish.

It was right at the very beginning of the match. (Lewis) was going in for the takedown and the other guy came down on his arm and it broke.

It was a suicide attack. The person was wearing an army uniform and was on a motorbike which he rammed into the convoy of the National Army officers.

It will be an old Army base in Arkansas, ... That's way too far.

Brett Lee

It will go down as one of the great moments in sportsmanship. He could have hugged his mates and celebrated, but he chose to put his arm around me.

It's a wonderful way the community can partner with the Salvation Army to make sure there's something under the tree.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I worked with Seann William Scott on 'Role Models,' and his arms are tatted up. He had to come to set an hour-and-a-half early to get them covered. It's not worth it. I want that extra hour of sleep.

Eva Longoria

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

C. S. Forester

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Damien Chazelle

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

Pete Townshend

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Norman Schwarzkopf

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

Vladimir Putin

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

Tom Brokaw

I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment.

Adam Michnik

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Alan Alda

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of servicemen and women lack basic financial knowledge. We are here to unveil an important new program that will help members of the armed services and their families manage their money, and save and invest it wisely.

Jason Aldean

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

Wait until it warms up. He's a feel pitcher. He feels the ball. When he feels the humidity on the ball, look out, because now he can put it where he wants it. His arm is in real good shape, but the feel of his pitches isn't there yet. When it gets there, he's going to be striking out 10 or 12 guys.

Ultimately in a democracy you cannot have both participation in elected office and participation in armed militia. They are simply incompatible.

Rich Gannon

As far as the decision to retire, it was an easy one for me, ... It really was not my decision. I was not able to continue to play physically. That really takes all the guess work out of it for a player like myself, who still feels that he's got enough left in his tank and enough left in his arm and his legs to continue to play.

As directed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, KBR is assisting the Iraqi oil workers in the operation of their facilities.

As fixed rates rise, ARMs will become a bigger factor. The rate of increase in home values will slow or will start to stagnate.

As fixed rates rise, ARMs will become a bigger factor.

A screenplay is like a cookbook, ... You need the chef and staff to turn it into something the consumer can get his arms around.