Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

George Jackson

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

Christine Lavin

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

George W. Bush

I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

George W. Bush

There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush

Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

George W. Bush

We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental — supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel.

George W. Bush

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

George W. Bush

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

George W. Bush

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

George Orwell

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

Jean Cocteau

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

George Carlin

The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

George F. Kennan

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

Francis Ford Coppola

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Francine Prose

You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.

Francis Bacon

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

I wanted that pin badly. With about 10 seconds left I got a chance to pin him and I just missed. I couldn't get my arm around the way I wanted to. I really went for the pin pretty hard at the end.

Jack O'Connell

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

I wanted to get everyone warmed up even though we dropped some balls. That first series was to get the blood going through arms and hands.

Kevin Drew

Thank you so very, very much. Look at us all. We're an army.

Chris Lehane

So much for George W. Bush's moderate makeover. He has rushed from the warm embrace of Bob Jones and straight into the arms of the NRA,

Martha Raddatz

Sometimes when the medical personnel come in, they have small arms fire following up on that.

Jose Guillen

I've had so many problems with my arm. I have to really protect that whole arm because I don't want anything to go wrong early in the season.

Sloane Stephens

I've been with Under Armour for a while now. I mean, I love Under Armour.

Eric Gagne

I'm more loose. I threw everything. I'm cutting loose. I'm going all out. I just need to get my arm strength up.

Mike Adams

I'm loving it. These kids ? they love playing the game. They love giving maximum effort and the people surrounding the program have just welcomed me with open arms and it's been a great experience so far.

Cassie Ventura

I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

I'm pretty darned excited. Hopefully . . . I'll have Taylor back in my arms soon, very soon.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm passionate about California. I'm very passionate because I have been received by Californians with open arms in 1968 when I came here as an immigrant, when I had no money, and the Californians reached out and helped me to be where I am today. And now it's time for me to give something back to California.

Ross Levinsohn

I'm intrigued by some of these start-ups in the Web 2.0 space. They don't cost an arm and a leg, but they have no business model.

I'm just looking forward to seeing the rest of my family and wrapping my arms around Jim and just starting to share all our stories.

Tony Bennett

I'm just like the relief pitcher in the bullpen keeping my arm warm until they call on me. That's the role I take. It provides great continuity for recruiting, just for the direction of the program.