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.

Hugh Fountain

Last year, we were playing for a region championship. This time we're fighting for our region life.

Stuart Symington

Many were hurting because they have been fighting the flood for so long.

Jim Jacobs

Mike is only 19 years old. Look up the ring records of Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano and see who they were fighting after 10 months. You won't recognize any of the names.

Sandy Hoddinott

Obviously we were hoping to win the 4x800 relay, but three of the four girls were fighting illnesses all week.

Randy Robitaille

No one is going to tell us we're done so we're going to try and keep fighting and try and get as many wins as we can. It's not as much about the wins and losses right now. It's about getting our game to where we want it to be.

Maurice Freeman

No one can say we ever gave up. We fought hard the whole game. If we keep fighting like that, we could be something special, too.

Mariela Carrion

My husband, he was out in Iraq fighting for his country, and he comes back and he gets shot down like an animal.

Sara Schopper

My girls really wanted it. That's why they kept fighting and fighting.

Rod Barajas

Whenever you play teams fighting for the playoffs, good quality teams, you want to try to win series, and we were able to do that here,

Robert Kazinsky

I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

Edward Fitzgerald

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,/ The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,/ Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough/ Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Ray Nagin

Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,

Al Way

From what we were told from up top, Kirk's knee had hit the ground before the fumble. But we had so many breakdowns, that we're going to have to go back and watch it on tape.

John Egan

I would have preferred the ground to be riding very fast, but I don't think it will be too much of an inconvenience if there is any more rain. I go there hopeful he can get into the places.

Sam Perlozzo

I was pointing to the ground and I knocked his mask out. That was unintentional and he knows it.

Chad Miller

If we get elected, we can hit the ground running.

Denis Healey

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

David Horsey

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Antonis Samaras

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

Lynsey Addario

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

Donald Rumsfeld

I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Charles Osgood

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

Dennis Ritchie

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...

Dennis Prager

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

Ehud Olmert

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Edvard Munch

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

Deval Patrick

I can't get those numbers to work, Tom.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Gerhard Schroeder

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Mark Kimmitt

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

Jaswant Singh

These soldiers were tortured and subjected to torture repeatedly,

John Shek

These soldiers were made to feel like second-class citizens.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

H. Hunt

I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Daniel Defoe

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Jim Butcher

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Geraldine Chaplin

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Bobby Petrino

No, no, we don't like having the bye week right after the opener,

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

S. Walker

If we play like that every week we will win a lot of games.

Scott Collie

She will be out for at least a week ? anything after that is just speculation at this point.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.