Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Berger

Mounting a ground invasion here with hundreds of thousands, with tens of thousands of soldiers fighting from village to village, week by week, with untold numbers of casualties is not something we think is in our national interest,

Shaukat Sultan

Now we find out that the casualties might have exceeded 100.

Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Bob Ainsworth

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

Bryan Whitman

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Connie Maina

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

Chandra Fernando

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

Henry Shelton

I think the prospect for casualties remains very real and high, ... There is no such thing as a risk-free military operation.

Haley Barbour

There is incredible evidence that the casualties are more than 50, maybe 80, ... and it seems likely that that's not the end of it. It may be higher, maybe substantially.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

Vladimir Putin

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Ben Bernanke

Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.

Javier Solana

NATO is preparing to go further if required to halt the violence and protect the civilian populations (in Kosovo),

Peter T. King

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

William Schulz

Only the deployment of sufficient numbers of troops with logistical support by UN member states will provide the protection that the civilians so desperately need.

Phil Cox

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

Fred Woodworth

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

James F. Amos

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.

Robert Teeter

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Jason Varitek

Like every year, the personality of the team takes hold over time. It's something you develop as the season goes along. You don't have a personality that is set going into the year, because every year there's a different mix.

Chris Davis

Luke's favorite practice is the one where they didn't have Abby here because he got to take a leadership role. It was fun because they got to lead one another and develop teaching skills as well.

Michael Griffin

Let me be clear. The primary objective for the next several years is to develop a new vehicle for lower orbit and beyond, following the orderly retirement of the space shuttle.

Mark Twain

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall. This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall, ... This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

Sathya Baba

Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.

Ann Davis

No one really knows why. We're hoping some of our work here helps find out.

Brooks Yang

My grandmother used to play the organ. She has Alzheimer?s and is in a nursing home. Music helps her to relax.

Jack Siedlecki

Getting Ryan (Fodor) and Mike (McLeod), two of the most publicized kids in the state last year, the two MVPs, really helps us.

Avery Cutshaw

When you can initiate plays like that, it says a lot. What Sa'D does helps the overall defense, helps the whole team. He inspired everyone to play hard.

Tim Maluga

If we have a talent edge, it's very slight. But what we do have is a mental edge. Because of our winning streak, we have players who have a mentality that they will win. Being at home helps all that much more.

Matt Hasselbeck

So instead of compressing it and having a lot of pressure, it allows it to ... I don't know why, actually. I have no idea why it works. I just know it helps my arm.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Paul Bremer

We need experienced Iraqi commanders who can lead troops. Listen, I've always told you that I opposed disbanding the army.

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

George H. W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime were disarming, we would know it because we would see it.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Brian Higgins

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Mark Berman

If the reports are accurate, it will be devastating.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Walter Benjamin

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Cary Sherman

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Gijs de Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Bryant H. McGill

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Charles Atlas

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Alexandra Paul

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Alexandra Fuller

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Alexandra Fuller

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Ludwig von Mises

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.