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marine two leader
The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.' Dave Barry
marine mets flattering
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. Catherine Bell
marine meteorologists wanted
I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist January Jones
marine usmc problem
We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem! Chesty Puller
marine fire usmc
So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!
marine differences long
Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.
marine great-military get-away
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
marine army thinking
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them. Kurt Vonnegut
marine names guy
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown. Bruce Springsteen
opportunity risk littles
There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk. Carol Leifer
opportunity giving history
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Carlos Fuentes
opportunity rest saw whenever
We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day. Duncan Fletcher
opportunity
When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong. Fran Dunphy
opportunity missing palestinian
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Abba Eban
opportunity land america
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me. Aasif Mandvi
opportunity space people
Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing. Alan Stern
opportunity player order
There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter. Alan Rusbridger
opportunity men space
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not. Alan Shepard
soldier united-states proud
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. Buffalo Bill
soldier attention care
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did. Janis Karpinski
soldier firsts said
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. Chris Bohjalian
soldier revolution empty
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. Chiang Kai-shek
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
soldier working-together devil
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me. Brandon Sanderson
soldier able harness
The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage. Jane Fonda
soldier devil may
Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil. Cal Thomas
soldier conventions obsolete
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? Charles Schumer