Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lakein

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Keyes

In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

Charles de Gaulle

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Charles de Gaulle

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Charles Dickens

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

David Morrell

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Janet Jackson

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Bob Kane

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Auberon Waugh

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

Dick Bruna

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Anton LaVey

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

Alan Dershowitz

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Adolf Hitler

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

D. H. Lawrence

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

David Axelrod

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

Gina Barreca

Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

Mark Cuban

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Bear Bryant

Expect the unexpected.

Brian Tracy

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

Brian Tracy

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

Charles Simic

There’s no preparation for poetry.

Charles Spurgeon

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.