Famous Quotes & Sayings

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.

I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

Preston Sturges

Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.

Phil Klay

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

Dasha Zhukova

I used to arm wrestle my roommate in college. Based on that, I'm in pretty good shape.

Dick Van Patten

I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

Confucius

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

When the first rotation came back, the Army fell more than 10,000, from about 309,000 to 297,000 (junior enlisted) in the course of three months, October to December.

When the door was opened the occupant was confronted by a man armed with a handgun, ... A shot was then fired through the locked security door, hitting the wooden door.

Flip Saunders

When we play zone and those guys put their arms out, you don't see anything,

When I wrapped my arms around him, I knew that I held a rare gift from God and that was the gift of a second chance.

Sy Montgomery

When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.

Saul Rubinek

When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the guys who are supposedly blind and crippled, who aren't, got me after I'd collected a lot of money, took my money and threatened to break my arm if I ever came back to their 'kip,' their turf.

We've just kind of stepped arm in arm through the last quarter-century together. She got more done in 61 years than most of us get done in 91 years.

J. J. Johnson

We watch film of ourselves, and looking at my mechanics, and I noticed some flaws. I tried to work on those. I tried staying closed when I throw and getting my arm up so I throw downhill more. I was able to control my pitches little better by doing that.

We warn all those who try to touch the weapons of those who liberated Gaza. These arms must be used to free our occupied motherland.

Alberto Gonzales

the president's critical authority to detain enemy combatants who take up arms on behalf of al Qaeda.

George Meredith

Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, / Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.

Ozzie Guillen

Two months ago everybody wanted to kill this kid and get him out of town because he was pitching horrible. Jose had always had the best arm on my team. It's a matter of time when he can use that. It's a matter of confidence. This kid won a big game for us and he showed the guys when you have confidence and throw strikes and attack the strike zone, you can win a lot of games.

When somebody comes up to you, like an old woman, and puts her hand on your arm and says, 'Thank you,' well, there's no better feeling.

James Patterson

Finally something comes on, ... To me, you know, I thought it was Elvis instantly. The hair stood up on my arms and stuff. I turned around and said, 'Yes, that's Elvis right there.'

Fifty-five people in the Army have to say yes. Fifty-five people in the DOD have to say yes. That doesn't make sense.

There are meridians on the arms that are connected to organs and the entire body. So as you press on the physical body and release tension, it allows the energy in the body to flow.

Don Lemon

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

Isabel Allende

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Eli Roth

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'

Dick Pound

We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from the sport newspaper L'Equipe.

When (police) got there, all I wanted was for someone to put their arms around me. Instead, I got put in a police car. But I completely understand. They are doing their job and my job is to help them as much as possible so they can find whoever did this.

Mallory Ortberg

With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

With a 13-event format, there's little margin for error. We need more front-end, easy speed, and we need more lively arms in the water. We looked too heavy last week.

Robert Glasper

When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.