Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Bridges

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Jerry Bridges

In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

Gilles Duceppe

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

Mark Vonnegut

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Jiang Zemin

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

Grover Cleveland

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Graham Chapman

Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't." "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy!

Georgina Chapman

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

Ignatius of Loyola

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

Hugh Sidey

A sense of humor is needed armor.

It's pretty scary when the doctor looks at you and says it's either your arm or your life.

David Beckham won't go to Newcastle after what the Toon Army did in Asia.

DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Damian just has those long arms and one of his strengths is that he has a knack for finding the ball. We're long and athletic and we've learned to use that.

Dave and Judy, Toby's parents, are still trying to deal with all of it right now. We don't know a whole lot. Our only contact with the Army is through the sergeant who is responsible for making his arrangements. We're supposed to know a little more this (Thursday) afternoon.

Joe Nemechek

Dale Jr. and somebody got together and shot up in front of me and I got into the back of them. My brakes locked up and the impact crunched the nose in. The Army car never drove the same after that. It was a pretty frustrating deal to have a car drive that good and then all of a sudden get wounded. For a while we had an easy top-10 car.

Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

considered enlisting in the Army a rite of passage into manhood.

Michael McDowell

The notion of a return to an armed struggle really hasn't been on for a long, long time,

The officer, thinking that he was armed with a knife, shot the victim.

Then who are we, the blind ones and the blind folded, that do not know if we are on the side of the edge or not, but yet we run full of hope believing that we can finally embrace the infinite that runs away from us just like the horizon line that we would like to embrace with our arms full of vain hopes?

Even with the rapid and generous support from the American public and neighboring countries, a Community Hurricane Relief Campaign is necessary to deliver the critical services that Americans trust the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army to deliver.

Even without your participation all the warriors standing arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.

The lack of international controls on the arms trade is making a mockery of national arms laws.

Kenneth Bacon

The KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) is responding, but it's basically trying to get out of the way, to retreat to the hills and preserve itself. The bulk of the fighting is at the instigation of the Yugoslav forces.

Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

The military, the army, still has extremely poor living conditions which will remain a risk as long as that is the case.

Their size on the boards is what killed us. We did everything we could to get into position, but they had longer arms to reach over us and get the ball.

The instructor checked me over and tried to have me fold my arms a certain way, which is hard to do for some people who are really stiff.

Johann Lamont

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.