Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah McLachlan

In the arms of the angels, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent revelry, you're in the arms of the angels, may you find some comfort here...

Julia Bacha

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Myles Munroe

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

I want to emphasize that what happened here at Fort Stewart is not just a Fort Stewart issue, ... It's an Army issue. The people at Fort Stewart did what they could with what they had, but the Army has more assets and we'll focus those assets to solve any problems we've found here.

I wanted to know what was happening and what army life is like in Iraq.

I want our troops to understand how much we love, respect them and let them know that we trust them - we trust the professionals in our military to win this war for us and we are not going to sit back and be arm chair quarterbacks telling them how to do their job.

Is this the day Matt will call and tell me he's coming home? Is this the day the Army will call and tell me he's dead?

Stephon Marbury

It was a dirty pick. I knew I was hurt when I went back in and I couldn't get my arms up without any pain.

Willie Randolph

It was a different spring for him since he didn't get a lot of throwing in. But he's told me his arm feels super.

It truly has ever since 2004 when Lance Armstrong won our event. It's a bit of a supply and demand scenario with the top teams in Europe, they all want to come to Georgia to compete.

Jim Calhoun

It took us 30 minutes to shake them. Maybe 35 minutes, and that's due to their tenacity. Hilton Armstrong changed everything in the middle.

Horace

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Herman Melville

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Henry David Thoreau

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

Henry David Thoreau

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

Henry David Thoreau

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

Jessica Lynch

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

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.

George Washington

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

George Washington

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

George Washington

One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

George Washington

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army.

George Washington

They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

George Meredith

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

George S. Patton

I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.

George S. Patton

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

George S. Patton

I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

George S. Patton

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

George S. Patton

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.