Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's the ultimate utility player. Due to some circumstances that came up, he's our starting shortstop now. He did an excellent job last weekend at Franklin Parish. He has decent footwork and he has the arm strength to make a play when we need it.

The lack of international controls on the arms trade is making a mockery of national arms laws.

Kenneth Bacon

The KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) is responding, but it's basically trying to get out of the way, to retreat to the hills and preserve itself. The bulk of the fighting is at the instigation of the Yugoslav forces.

Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

The military, the army, still has extremely poor living conditions which will remain a risk as long as that is the case.

Their size on the boards is what killed us. We did everything we could to get into position, but they had longer arms to reach over us and get the ball.

The instructor checked me over and tried to have me fold my arms a certain way, which is hard to do for some people who are really stiff.

Johann Lamont

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

Douglas MacArthur

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

David Bowie

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

Lois Lowry

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

A. N. Wilson

What we're doing right now feels like we're going in the right direction. I need to face hitters and all that stuff, but we're going fast and at the same time we're really just taking it day-to-day. When you start making schedules and having to meet deadlines, then we're really not listening to what my arm is saying.

Joe Torre

What we need is length out of our starting pitchers. Moose probably needs another start or two before he gets there. El Duque is still developing arm strength. The one thing we've always stressed here during our success is the role of the starting pitchers. That's where it all begins for us.

Jim Brown

There is a reasonable possibility there may be further money that can be distributed to charities, and the Salvation Army has made known their desire to receive some of it. I'm glad to hear from them, and I can understand if they felt they were unfairly singled out, but they weren't.

There are physical threats to safety from roving bands of armed individuals with weapons who are threatening the safety of the hospital.

There are no gates anymore. Everyone is walking around armed with sticks, pipes, chains, knives.

Alexander Downer

The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,

The only way I could keep breathing was to stay behind the chimney. There were embers as big as my arm and I was squirting them with the pressure washer.

There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city.

After I tightened that up, my dead arm went away. Hopefully, I'll recognize that sooner the next time it happens.

Brad Ausmus

The most important thing is that he can use his right arm again. I know he's going to get this surgery to remove the bone spurs. You never know what can happen. You hope after the surgery, a month later, his range of motion is better, he's feeling great and who knows, maybe he can play again. But at this point, it's a quality of life issue. Not a career issue.

Jim Nelson

The most important thing for us right now is to get a game in. I usually like to play a game or two before we go down there to see who can get some guys out. Now we'll have to go a little deeper in our pitching staff to find out what kind of arms we have.

A customer inside called 9-1-1 at 2 this morning. This individual reported that two armed men had forced their way into the tavern, ordered everyone to lie down on the ground and proceeded to take money out of everyone's wallet.

some solutions to ensure clearer accountability between the executive and the administrative arms of government.

Something in the Army changed him ... he came home as an adult.

Some people have a rocket arm and some people can run real fast. I'd rather just learn where I can exploit the other team, where they're lacking.

Miguel Olivo

Somebody would stand out there with his arms raised and say, 'Go!' ... And we'd take off. I'd win one, he'd win one. It was always close.

Some people might get their payments weekly, and sometimes the check-cashing places really do charge an arm and a leg, and so this is less.

Curtis Sliwa

Some people have this stereotype in their mind that you have to be the son or daughter of Bruce Lee, physically fit, trim and able to fight off an army of uzi-toting, dope-sucking, psychopathic killing machines. That is not the prerequisite.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film, ... I think it's a truthful film, and the truth is political. The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

Robert Shaw

So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.

So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

Alfonso Cuaron

Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.