Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Blunt

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

Alexander Haig

Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.

Carla Ponte

Mladic is in Serbia, and as you know, Mladic is protected with power of the army.

Carla Ponte

Mladic is in Serbia and, as you know, Mladic is protected by power of the army. What I need is an... obligation from Belgrade to arrest him and deliver him to The Hague.

James Connolly

I feel terrible. I'd like to get out. I'm done with the army. I want to move on. My commitment was up last December but they extended the whole division until January 31, 2007,

Bryan Hilferty

I wouldnt brag too much about this one because its so small, but its still seven straight months.

Richard Petersen

I have a job to do, I'm an officer in the Army, and I've got my duty to do. We're truck drivers, we're targets -- big moving targets -- and it's scary.

Sara Nelson

So many of the boys from town were in the Army.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Isabella Rossellini

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.

Ronald Kessler

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

Rohit Shetty

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

Jim Wolfgang

Like everything else, parents need to be cautious because besides having a lot of good material out there, there's a lot of junk material out there as well.

Robert Bloomfield

Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride, To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me.

Sandra Forman

Look what happened with Natalee in Aruba, ... Anything could happen besides accidents, we never know.

Anthony Waters

Leroy helped me out a lot from playing beside him last year, ... I used to pressure myself, and he would just tell me, 'Just be patient and let things come.' Good things will always happen to those who are patient.

Takeo Hiranuma

Search all over the world, but you won't find any other family besides the Japanese imperial family that has maintained an unbroken male line for 125 generations. In other words, it is the precious, precious treasure of the Japanese race, as well as a world treasure.

Irish Blessings

May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you and all your heart might desire.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Kristen Kovesdy

We can't leave our guards out to hang. Last time, we depended on them too much to guard them.

Myron Corbett

We depended on Diana a lot in terms of settling the team down in the fourth quarter. After the first quarter her leadership on the floor was big.

Heywood Broun

Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!

Jean Bruyere

There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'.

Felipe Alou

The possibility was open for him to be here during the game. It all depended on something he had to do.

Robert Wise

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

Paul Dwyer

He taught us that family and friends are gifts to be treasured. He also taught us that we should work as if everything depended on us, and pray as if everything depended on God.

Mark Few

Plus we can score in different ways, which is good, because last year we depended way too much on Blake.

Richard Fuller

If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; How would I be? What would I do?

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

Michael Mori

Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission,

Terry Holt

Mr. Armey and Mr. Lott are longtime friends and allies, and they will always work hard together on the issues facing Congress,

Adam Sampson

More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems.

Richie Adubato

Now we're facing a four-game road trip. We have to steal one very shortly.

Dave Duncan

From here on out he's going to start seeing more situations like that and he's going to be facing big lefthanders. And he's going to have to be ready to start getting them out.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sinclair

I work for lots of fire protection districts. With some exceptions, everyone is facing the same problem.

Dirk Niebel

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our constitutional democracies.

Eric Williams

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

Bill Richardson

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

John Thune

We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

Ken Starr

With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,

Donald M. Payne

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Bernie Sanders

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Michael Bennet

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

Maxine Waters

The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue.

William Harvey

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.