Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Craig Brown

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

Alvaro Uribe

When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.

Andy Yakulis

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

Scott Evans

Today is a great day as we stand with you to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of the men and women of the 216th Engineer Battalion through what was a very long, challenging year in Iraq, ... It was indeed an honor to serve with the men and women who comprised the 216th.

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.

Marie Sevigne

Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Dennis Johnson

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Lin Shaye

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

Andy Heyward

We're looking at the entire food chain of children's and family entertainment.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Gabrielle Union

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

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,

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

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.

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.

Harry Reid

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

Eileen collins

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

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.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

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.

Kathryn Harrold

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.

Maura Harty

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

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.

Jason Smith

We were dreadful in the third quarter, but to end it like that gave us the momentum going into the fourth.

Prince Charles

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

Chua Bin

We started the year on a low note and we are ending the year on a high because all sectors bounced back.

Colin Jones

We're going to take it one week and one game at a time. Not getting to play in that game was so tough. It was a frustrating ending to a great season. Now we're healthy and ready to get started. This is going to be our year.

Keir Dullea

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

Martha Grimes

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Kerry Wilson

She, I hate to say it, uses men to move herself up. It's kind of a rags to riches story, but she was not well-liked by the military or the aristocracy. It's like 'Cinderella,' only the ending is not happy.

Bonnie Tyler

I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.

Nicole Jordan

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

P. J. O'Rourke

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

Fred Goss

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

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Jim Butler

We want to make sure the vessel was not compromised when it was sitting on the beach.

Don Helling

We're sitting in a super spot for tomorrow.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

Daniel Handler

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Eden Sher

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Cedric Benson

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

Rob Jordan

We're starting to get a little more notice.

Brian Eno

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

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.

Henny Youngman

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

Allan Urlis

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

Peter Cardillo

I like American Telephone at 45 and 50,

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Lee Trevino

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Louis C. K.

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

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Kathleen Blanco

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

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Elie Wiesel

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

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Philip Brooks

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

Cheryl Conway

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

Joan Didion

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.