Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

Judith Rodin

There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.

There's an intangibility factor with Stan. It's like having a second father or grandfather, or a favorite uncle who puts his arm around you.

Jason Stearns

There's a need for a neutral force to calm the population. The Congolese army is a nascent, fledgling force. MONUC fulfills the task.

There's an army of CN vehicles here with equipment to fix their track, and yet we're fending on our own here,

Jay Wright

There was a lot of security for our team, and the teams from Great Britain and Israel, ... We had armed security guards and soldiers with machine guns with us at all times. That was a wakeup call.

At least Jacob is prepared and armed and surrounded by guys who are there to protect him. Which a lot more than we are just walking down the street.

Martin Jol

At first I thought it was an elbow and then he did the same - leading with his arm in a challenge on Michael Dawson,

John O. Brennan

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.

Thomas Hutchinson

A Black came in after dinner and sat with the ladies, and after coffee, walked with the company in the gardens, one of the young ladies having her arm within the other.

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.

Shay Mitchell

Personally, I don't really have a set style or look. It's pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a floral-print dress and high heels to ripped jeans and army boots.

Michael W. Smith

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

Sholem Asch

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

Sherrod Brown

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Sebastian Junger

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

Tom Hiddleston

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.

Sister Souljah

Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game.

Socrates

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Socrates

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Mercy Otis Warren

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

Michael Moore

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

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)

John Milton

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

John Milton

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

Miguel de Cervantes

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Miguel de Cervantes

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

John Steinbeck

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

Terence

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Nikita Khrushchev

Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.

Nick Vujicic

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.