Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren’t exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)

Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Michael Bloomberg

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Rand Paul

The source of the problem is in Syria. Raqqa is the headquarters of ISIL, which is a lethal terrorist organization, now army. If you don't go after them over there, they're going to hit us over here, and there's no substitute for that in my view.

Ricardo Sanchez

The honor and value systems of our armed forces are solid and the bedrock of what makes us the best in the world, ... There has been no catastrophic failure, and America's armed forces will never compromise their honor.

The Honda Bandit should be considered armed and dangerous.

Gilbert Arenas

You can see what they've been through by the look on their faces. I'm just trying to cheer them up. I can't imagine what they're going through, and what they've seen, but I know what we can do from this point on to try to make it easier for them. You have to just open your arms and make them as happy as you can.

James Connolly

I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

James Connolly

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

James Connolly

State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.

Jacque Fresco

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

Jacque Fresco

Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.

Henry Rollins

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

Henry Adams

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

Henry A. Kissinger

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry Giroux

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

Henry Hazlitt

The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it.

Henry Hazlitt

Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.

Plato

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

Plato

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Paula Abdul

Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.

Martin Schulz

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

Lee Child

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

Lisa Kleypas

Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me....I'll never ask again.

Johnny Depp

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD

John Sheridan

Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.

John Selden

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

James Russell Lowell

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Libba Bray

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

I feel an army in my fist.

Frederick the Great

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations