Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Scott

I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

Susan Collins

It is ... discouraging to hear today that there is only one Iraqi battalion that is fully capable, ... It doesn't feel like progress.

Andy Yakulis

Basically, the battalion commander of any unit is responsible for anything that unit does or fails to do.

Marie Sevigne

Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions

French Proverb

God is on the side of the strongest battalions

Kit Bond

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

John Walsh

Sgt. Travis Arndt was a dedicated young infantry soldier doing a difficult job in a difficult time. We grieve his loss here in Iraq. ... The men of this battalion will not forget his contributions and his sacrifice and we will miss him dearly.

Dave Smith

Sir, our Iraqi partners have been conducting battalion and Brigade-size operations since April. They have been planning and coordinating with other Iraqi security forces, such as the Iraqi police and local government agencies, preparing for this referendum. Sir, we as coalition forces, we have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Clint Eastwood

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Barry Long

Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan you will notice that having fixed the object, the facts just keep coming, linking up into a chain of proposed action.

Mark Vigoroso

Our research shows that 83% of leading companies indicate field service optimization is core to improving their competitive positions. True field service optimization requires service organizations to maintain the most cost-effective, productive, and profitable service chain at all times -- especially in the face of a myriad of constraints and interruptions.

Alexander Yakovenko

part of a chain of international terrorist operations.

Jeff Poston

Our supply chain is geared up to meet the need of 30 million Canadians, and we don't have the scale of operation to be able to respond to the likely demand of the U.S..

Milton Smith

Restaurants are a difficult business. But you don't necessarily have to be part of a chain to be successful.

Pat Burke

Maybe it's a chain reaction. But you know what it is, a lot of times when you're tired, tugging down on your shorts, you look down and see your socks, and it's just a reminder to stay hungry.

Greg Gallaspy

It is a trend because national chains are looking at destinations. Obviously, the mystique, the uniqueness, the ambiance of the River Walk pulls them into this.

Geraldine Brooks

I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.

Scott Burns

I think a lot of the problems they've been having with?supply chain bottlenecks?look like they've kind of worked their way through the system.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Wesley Clark

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

Zell Miller

The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

Sun Tzu

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

Jules Verne

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

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.

Eileen collins

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

Harry Reid

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

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,

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man. He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man, ... He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that will last?/ All things are taken from us, and become/ Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

Tony Blair

I would like to express our sympathy and condolences to the people of Nepal following the dreadful tragedy there in respect of the royal family,

Prince Charles

Our hearts go out to you today as they did on that dreadful today.

Ruth Reichl

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

Maura Harty

We are exponentially better than we were on that dreadful September morning.

George W. Bush

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Tom Stauch

It is an unfortunate ending because that was one of our goals - to try and get back to Cedar Rapids - but I don't think it's something the officials could overlook. It was a good call, but unfortunate for us.

Britani Pittullo

Last season, people were getting hurt. We're ending this season at a high.

Beth Miller

That was a nice ending for her after what happened last year. She's playing much better now.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

Chrissy Mastry

I can't say I'm disappointed. I could not be happier that we got here. Ending my senior season going to state was amazing.

Jeff Sanders

I can't remember a week ever starting and ending with that type of excitement before. It was a great week.

Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Fred Goss

I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Brett Ellis

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.

Pierre Lacroix

That day was like sitting on the ice. Now we're sitting in the whirlpool.

Jaswant Singh

Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Budge

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Ashley Giles

It is a lot worse sitting up there than it was in the middle,

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Andre Williams

I think everybody's starting to realize, we've got to make it work. We've got to get through it.

Simon Gagne

I'm starting to feel better. ... I have to say, I think the three of us are starting to feel a little more energy.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

Chuck Palahniuk

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Ambrose Bierce

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Peter Cardillo

I like American Telephone at 45 and 50,

Allan Urlis

The worst thing to do is not make a telephone call.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Henny Youngman

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill.

Michael Moore

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

J. D. Hayworth

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

Barry Pepper

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Crystal Candy

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.