Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

Gustav Stresemann

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

John Dryden

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

John Lennon

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

John Lennon

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

John Lennon

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

Katherine Anne Porter

...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched...

Karen Morley

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

Joseph de Maistre

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Langston Hughes

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

Joseph Nye

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Julius Caesar

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Oswald Spengler

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Otto von Bismarck

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Oscar Peterson

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.

Kami Garcia

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

Paul Krugman

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

John Scalzi

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

John Piper

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

Mose Allison

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

Marya Hornbacher

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Patrick Henry

If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

Pat Conroy

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

Julia Roberts

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.

Joseph Stalin

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Joseph Stalin

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic

Joseph Stalin

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

Nhat Hanh

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

Noah Webster

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

Noam Chomsky

We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

Noam Chomsky

I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.