Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

Alan Furst

And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

Al Capone

These guys are not from the Iraqi army, ... These are not Iraqi soldiers. They are not members of any of the Iraqi armed forces.

Charlemagne

Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky.

Elif Safak

We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Edward Said

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah.

Bruce Conner

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Bruce Campbell

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

Brian Lumley

The Army was my bread and butter.

Brandon Sanderson

One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

Argus Hamilton

The U.S. Army cancelled an order for 600,000 black berets that were made in China. It's not just that they were made by slave laborers. It's that no soldier can feel good about himself wearing headgear from the Kathie Lee Collection.

We're here to do Army public relations and recruiting. That's our main goal.

Bashar al-Assad

Armies are not only for offensives.

Bashar al-Assad

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

Ashley Olsen

It was almost like I was in the army,

Brendan Fehr

In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to them, but not about their life, so you get to work on saving their life. But you know whose lives you're saving overseas, in the Army, to a certain degree. You know whether's it your guy or a bad guy, and it's generally not anybody in between.

Brendan Fehr

The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.

Jane Goodall

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

Jane Goodall

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

James Van Allen

I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

Kevin Drew

We're an army, ladies and gentlemen. We're an army of friends.

Yesterday he was talking about how some of the guys might be on boats, some might be on army trucks and some on foot.

Charles Bukowski

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

Sydney Smith

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Anton Chekhov

I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

Arundhati Roy

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable to?

Diane Ackerman

Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

Desi Arnaz

The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

Desiderius Erasmus

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Demi Lovato

My Lovatics, thank you so much, Im so honored. You guys are such an incredible force and an amazing army.