Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Francis Meagher

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Ruben Aguilar

In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Rick Riordan

Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—” “Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?” “No!” “Me neither,” Leo admitted.

Rick Riordan

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Rick James

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

Rick Riordan

He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife—pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want.

Maggie Stiefvater

Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.

Haruki Murakami

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Haruki Murakami

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Haruki Murakami

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

Julius Caesar

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Oswald Spengler

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Otto von Bismarck

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Oscar Peterson

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.

Kami Garcia

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

Samuel Smiles

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Warren Farrell

The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

Zora Neale Hurston

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

Sara Teasdale

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

William Howard Taft

That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.

William Howard Taft

The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

William Howard Taft

We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.

Vladimir Lenin

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Vladimir Lenin

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Walid Muallem

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

Vladimir Putin

Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof.

Vladimir Putin

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

Vladimir Putin

No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.

William Graham Sumner

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Voltaire

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.