Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Gore Vidal

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

Eric Shinseki

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

Eric Shinseki

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

Damien Chazelle

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.

Tom Brokaw

I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment.

John Mahoney

When I got out of the army I went to college, and I got a Bachelor's degree in English, and then I went to University, and I got a master's degree in English. Because I thought I wanted to teach English. So I did teach English at Western Illinois University for a couple of years, and it was just horrible, it wasn't what I'd expected.

Kofi Annan

Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basically it is in the hands of Indonesia.

Lynne Truss

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

John Updike

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Azar Nafisi

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Jan Schakowsky

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Charles Clark

Our fear is of course of more attacks, until we succeed in tracking down the gang which committed the atrocities on Thursday and that's why the No. 1 priority ... has to be the catching of the perpetrators.

Adam Levine

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

William Doyle

What happened that day, the rescue attempts and the generosity, what they've done, that's what should be there, period, ... Not talking about atrocities or blame America.

Jodi Picoult

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Brigitte Boisselier

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

David Ginola

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

Ninon de

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Ninon de

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Brigitte Bardot

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Ernest Renan

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Charles Perrault

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Peter Liguori

Well, I was referring to the spider more than the aftermath,

Bo Bennett

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

Margo Wootan

I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.

Chuck Klosterman

ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

In the end, life makes victims of us all.

Noomi Rapace

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Jack Welch

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Gloria Swanson

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.