Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Michael Bloomberg

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Patrick Ness

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.

Leopold Trepper

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

Tom Hiddleston

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.

Sister Souljah

Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game.

Socrates

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Mercy Otis Warren

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

John Green

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

Pat Robertson

The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.

Marcos Baghdatis

I believe I should do the army and serve my country. I just need some peace of mind for a few years until my career is finished.

Alexander Hamilton

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and

I considered the difficulty of crossing a ford with an Army of 6 or 7 Thousand Men, Cannon, Horses, Wagons, Cattle /ca /ca, the right disposition of the whole / detaching a respectable force to a distance of 22 Miles.

Richard Russo

I loved the idea of having Paul Newman here, and that wonderful cast. I was particularly glad to see . . . that army of people, many of them local, who were set into motion by that film.

I'm sure John Walker is going to play great in his last Army-Navy game.

In general, given a choice between a device designed to be dedicated for a specific task (or a few tasks) and a general-purpose device that addresses the same needs -- without seeming like a clunky Swiss Army Knife device brick -- I'll take the general-purpose device every time.

In conversations we had today with Army representatives, the Army confirmed to us that it did not award a $291 million contract ... to any single manufacturer,

In Bosnia, for instance, they play a crucial role in setting up these joint commissions that bring Army people and local people together to talk about governance issues, providing humanitarian aid.

Initially, the Army needs people who can follow, too.

In June 1967, it was the IDF that stormed forward and led the charge. Today, the IDF is the gatekeeper and the rearguard of the convoy. This is the way of the army; this is the way of the IDF,

Jalal Talabani

In any place in the world, when the country is facing difficulties, beside the army, the people depended on the militias and the partisan groups.

I'm in no way stepping away from Mormonism as a center, as an anchoring element, ... God's Army.

If she's caught in a circular firing squad with her own army, you let that play out a little bit.

Gilles Duceppe

If you develop a foreign policy the way we see it, then we'll have an army that will intervene mainly to secure democracy in some countries, participating in international forces, going when there's a natural catastrophe, either inside Quebec or outside Quebec,

John Edward

If you're not actually living on an army base, you don't have a support group, but at least we're able to fill in with people we talk with.

If you convict Sgt. Simpson, you'll be sending a message out to the Army that no drill sergeant is safe.

I like the Army (planes) best, ... They're cool.

Maggie Dixon

I just want to start by saying that I've never been so proud of a group of young women as I was in the last four months. They have been through so much and really just kept fighting back. I'm so honored and proud to have the opportunity to coach these young women, and I'm looking forward to the future of Army basketball.

Cassie Ventura

I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

It is the Serb army right now -- the Yugoslav national army -- that is ethnically cleansing whole sectors of Kosovo in the south, in a manner very much reminiscent of Bosnia. The question is, can we stand by and let it happen?