Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

Roger King

The element commander perceived hostile intent and an imminent threat to his troops and he ordered his unit to open fire,

Eileen collins

Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

John Reid

While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,

Cindy Sheehan

Who do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?

Bryan Whitman

We don't want to take unnecessary risk. We do make sure that when we exercise military force we use the right resources, sufficient to get the job done. It is a decision made by the commander on the ground,

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Marc DeForest

We pride ourselves on being truly independent and basing many of our decisions on how our fans will benefit.

Edmund Daukoru

We know we are taking a risk. But it is not a world free of risks. We've taken a decision full of risks.

Chris Liddell

We have made a strategic decision with respect to next year that, given the set of opportunities and the revenue growth potential we see, we're willing to make that trade-off.

Michael Niggli

We have made a strategic decision to invest heavily in natural gas.

Jim Pogue

We have made an administrative decision to waive the requirement that a prescription drug be purchased in the United States or one of its territories.

Julie Salz

We'd like that decision to be left up to medical guidelines.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of (the Homeland Security Department's) decision to return to level yellow.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of the Department of Homeland Security's decision to return to level yellow,

Willie Nelson

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

Bill Shepherd

We're doing very well, actually. Our pre-flight and in-flight experience -- getting good exercise has really helped.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

Mark Sue

We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward.

Dogen

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

William Shakespeare

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

Tom Daschle

The president will veto it, and there are ample votes to sustain the veto. So, that was an exercise in total futility,

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Fareed Zakaria

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Brooke Shields

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Carly Fiorina

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Don Cornelius

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

Virginia Postrel

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

E. Hicks

When we pulled out on Wednesday, the military had pretty much taken over the area. There were even officers from NYPD and LAPD so the security was really tightening down.

Dick Cheney

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.

Dick Cheney

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Dick Cheney

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Dick Cheney

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

Dick Cheney

We need from time to time to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there probably are some who actually believe if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything's going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

Dick Cheney

I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

Judith Rodin

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Greek proverb

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Harry Lloyd

If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

Denzel Washington

We're not sure yet who will play my father,

Laurie McKager

We're not sure why that wall had not been tested.

Jeff Carr

We're not sure if the two discoveries are related. However, we will look into that possibility.

Eric Erickson

We're not sure if he made a right-of-way violation or not,