Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

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

Akhmad Kadyrov

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Chief Seattle

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

Chesty Puller

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Chesty Puller

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

Chester W. Nimitz

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Chester W. Nimitz

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Charles Dickens

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Spurgeon

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

Charles Spurgeon

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Alan Watts

Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?

Alan Watts

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.