Famous Quotes & Sayings

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

A Jordanian embassy car was the target of gunfire from armed men who wounded the Iraqi driver Jamal Salman Russen who had stopped at a petrol station to fill up.

Eric Hobsbawm

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.

Petra Nemcova

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Petra Kelly

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

Marisha Pessl

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

Marissa Mayer

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Megan McCafferty

Love," he said, "has the longest arms.

Mayim Bialik

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

Maynard James Keenan

The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.

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 Dos Passos

The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out. The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you-- The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank

John Dos Passos

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

John Michael Higgins

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

John Candy

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

John Belushi

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

John Bachman

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

Joe Haldeman

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Joan Rivers

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

Jimmy Fallon

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

Jimmy Page

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Jimmy Page

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Jim Talent

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Louise Hay

I choose to open my arms to all the good that life has in store for me.

Mao Zedong

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

Mao Zedong

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

Mao Zedong

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Mao Zedong

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

Mao Zedong

If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

Mao Zedong

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.