Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Salvation Army in Rochester is the best.

The Salvation Army and the Red Cross are having a big impact here, as well as the faith-based organizations,

The sale was a shot in the arm for the impressionist market.

The rumours tend to create confusion, ... These things have distracted the Armed Forces of the Philippines from pursuing its primary mission of going after the enemies of the state.

Sandra Brown

The Scottish Executive would be more honest if they'd given Tom Shaw a white stick anda guide dog, then tied his arms behind his back.

I've seen her throw girls out from dead-center field. She just has a rocket of an arm and blazing speed. She is a real joy to watch.

John Smoltz

I've woken up thinking my arm has fallen off because I can't feel it,

I've watched him since he was swimming in junior high. He's always used the strength in his arms and legs to get through the pool.

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

Georg Brandes

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Jerry Bridges

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Jerry Bridges

In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

George Washington

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

George Washington

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

George Washington

One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

George Washington

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army.

George Washington

They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

George Meredith

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

Hillary Clinton

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

Joan Arc

You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.

Guy de Maupassant

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Guy deBord

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

Gore Vidal

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

Gore Vidal

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

Helen Keller

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

Randy Sanders

I hope this will give our team the shot in the arm it needs to get back on track for the rest of the season.

I'm about 90 percent now. I'm just getting into being game ready. The biggest thing right now is to see if my arm will hold up. The biggest strain will be getting through spring training. It's difficult getting back to the speed of the game. That game speed at that particular level you can't simulate that.

Pat Roberts

I'm a former Marine, ... I serve on the Armed Services Committee. No bill that I have seen, even the one that I introduced that went even farther than this, had anything to do with doing any harm to tactical intelligence in regards to that war fighter in the field.

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,

Frank Gifford

Governor Reagan had his arm around John Lennon and he was explaining American football to him. Only on 'Monday Night Football' would you get those two guys, who were poles apart, united.

Li Peng

gradually upgrade weapons and other equipment and improve the defense capabilities and combat effectiveness of the army under modern technical and especially high-tech conditions.