Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now we find out that the casualties might have exceeded 100.

Thomas Adams

So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men.

Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Mr. Rove remembers they had met at a political event in the 1990s. Since then, he would describe him as a casual acquaintance.

Mounting a ground invasion here with hundreds of thousands, with tens of thousands of soldiers fighting from village to village, week by week, with untold numbers of casualties is not something we think is in our national interest,

Ron Wilson

We were casual and they made us pay for it.

People are having fun in other cities. And people have a lot more casual sex in New York.

Heywood Broun

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Alan Greenspan

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

There's a place on the scale for every personal or professional style, including casual dress in the workplace.

As much as Oprah would like to see (fact-checking) happen, I think there might be more of an editor and a publisher looking deeply into the writer's eyes. Publishing has never been a science. This is a prime example of how personal and casual it can be.

It's not a surprise to find a designer suit label that is probably in the realm of $2,000 to $3,000, depending on where it's made and what fabric it's made from. We can also go into a typical mall today and find that a guy can put together a casual pants, shirt and tie for probably $100.

That's a much-improved Sen-eca team, but it's not something a casual fan will see,

John Jones

Suits have really become the new sportswear. The first ones to go back to the suit were older guys, but now it has moved down to the young guys who are wearing it in a casual way.

Michael Ward

It's ironic that of all the shows in the West End, this should be the first casualty of the bombings on July 7 and 21.

It's casual upscale bistro dining with a good wine list.

Jan Egeland

Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.

It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.

J. C. Watts

It's not something we've forgotten about. We have had some casual conversations about it this fall, but it hasn't been a big topic.

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

The number of casualties and the damage suggest that there could have been more than one landmine but we have not confirmed that at this stage.

Ben Nelson

The fairways were accumulating so much water where it was unfair to the players trying to take casual water relief. They were having to go a long way to find a dry spot, and that kind of changes the game a little bit. That's when we threw in the towel.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

Jerry Sloan

They just waxed our ears back pretty good. In the first half, we looked like we were pretty casual about it.

Jerry Sloan

They just kept pecking away at us. We got casual and the shots we took are the shots you don't really like. That's what happens in this league so often, you lose your focus for a second or two and the other team picks it up and gets it back.

Len Elmore

It was history-making at the time. It was one of the greatest games. The combination of the extended field and television exposure that night that game was shown on all the stations. The casual fan took note in a big way.

Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,

Albert Murray

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.

Dennis Kucinich

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

We understand that there was some civilian casualties during the operation. We do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred,

Gerald Vizenor

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Alan Tudyk

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.