Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antony Beevor

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

Antony Beevor

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Ashley Wagner

I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Cyril Falls

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

Cormac McCarthy

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

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.

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.

Both the US Defense Department (Army Corps of Engineers) and the State Department have roles in reconstruction, however, the Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO) manages most of the pledged $18 billion.

Antony Beevor

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

This shows that the guard is part of the total army and the national mission is helping stabilize Iraq.

David Lloyd George

Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.

Confucius

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

Confucius

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Confucius

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

The reason I say that is that I have zero trust for what (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic or his army might try to do, ... So I think they're putting themselves, from an operational perspective, at great risk in doing this.

There is no supervision at all, and the army just stews in its own juice.

John Buford

There is so much apathy... that I wish to be relieved from the Army of the Potomac.

What seems most likely is that Hood and his staff, weary of mind, exhausted in body and confident the Federal army was still trapped, simply went to sleep.

The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

Utah Phillips

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

Helmut Kohl

The army is under orders to defend every place,

Orson Scott Card

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

Vandana Shiva

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

You have an infrastructure here that provides the Army with the organization. It helps us develop our doctrine, our tactics, techniques and procedures. (It) looks at our organization, helps us develop leaders -- all those ingredients that go into making your Army and my Army the best in the world,

You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.

George Washington

with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren.

Kevin Powers

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

James Blunt

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.

Evangeline Lilly

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

Mickey Rourke

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.