Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Commoner

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Barney Frank

I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

Audre Lorde

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

Aslan Maskhadov

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

Antony Beevor

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

Frederic Bastiat

If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

Edward Gibbon

But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.

Bill Murray

The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe....

Carlos Mesa

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

C. S. Lewis

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

We have no bats and no arms that will overpower teams, so we need to play smart baseball and not make any mistakes on defense.

When your timing is off and you're pushing the ball instead of throwing the ball, there will be a decrease in velocity. If the timing is off or the arm slot is off, you won't see the same thing.

When you're trying for a College World Series title, you want to do anything you can to help the team. Now I realize in pro ball it's about longevity and doing what's right for your arm and yourself and the team.

Agnes Smedley

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

We were basically spying with one arm tied behind our back. These restrictive limitations on not being able to recruit people who have some violence in their past as spies were ridiculous.

Charles Rangel

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

Bill Mauldin

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

Muqtada al Sadr

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Muqtada al Sadr

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Nate Parker

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

When we were growing up in Philadelphia, she would drop us off at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends, ... I was enamored of the armor collection of knights and weapons.

Nicole Miller

When I was on my honeymoon, I lost use of my right arm and right leg, and that's when we knew something was wrong. I was not totally paralyzed, but there was loss of sensation and feeling. The doctor on the ship could feel that my right side was weaker. They told me something was going on, but that it was not a medical emergency and that it didn't matter if I went off the boat that day or in four days.

Jeremy Shockey

When I was making all those crazy mistakes, he would put his arm around me and he said, 'We all make mistakes.' He helped me grow. He never gave up on me.

Chan Gailey

You don't know what the kinks in the armor are until you see him play more. You didn't see the vulnerability in that ballgame.

Michael Brown

We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.

Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions? - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Jalal Talabani

We can depend on this militia for a while, then send them to the army or back to their jobs.

We felt like someone had to step up and give us a shot in the arm and we didn't care who it was.

We believe we could make a substantial offer to the people in New Orleans to come to Pittsburgh, ... This is a bold statement on the part of all of us from Pittsburgh, to say, 'Come, and we are going to open our arms and doors to you.'

Joe Flaherty

What's most outrageous in our eyes is that he entered our home twice in the course of these crimes, once to take the murder weapon and arm himself and a second time after the murders in an attempt to hide the weapon and perpetrate his crime.

Tom Glavine

Unless my arm falls off, I'm not planning on getting this close to 300 wins and shutting it down.

We're doing better here. The Iraqi Army is playing a bigger role.