Famous Quotes & Sayings

The documents you are seeing reflect the level of thoroughness and completeness that the army has done to date trying to bring out any allegation of any inappropriate or criminal misconduct.

And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, / Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

All this weaponry is coming to the National Lebanese Army, ... All is being taken by the army and there will not be any of these weapons in the hands of anybody.

These guys were fearsome. They could deter anything but a minor army.

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 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.

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.

A prolonged shut down of spare parts production potentially endangers Army readiness. There's no way Sikorsky can maintain a high rate of production without the Teamsters on the line.

As directed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, KBR is assisting the Iraqi oil workers in the operation of their facilities.

As an English General has very truly said, 'The German army was stabbed in the back.'

Arroyo may be weak, but she is safe and is in no danger of being removed by force during the first six months of 2006. The threats were bloated out of proportions. There may be groups within the army that were not happy with her, but they have no capability to stage a coup.

Douglas Brinkley

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Salvation Army ... they've done a great job there.

Our experience over seven or eight years has been that when customers start using virtualization, they have a preliminary notion of what virtualization is. But once they get in and start using it, they see it's like a Swiss Army knife, and they can use it in many different ways.

Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

Something in the Army changed him ... he came home as an adult.

Curtis Sliwa

Some people have this stereotype in their mind that you have to be the son or daughter of Bruce Lee, physically fit, trim and able to fight off an army of uzi-toting, dope-sucking, psychopathic killing machines. That is not the prerequisite.

Robert Shaw

So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.

Walid Jumblatt

Nowadays it has become more risky. They have listening devices stronger than the Lebanese Army. They have infiltrated everything.

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

They reached that point without army occupancy and it is important that they accomplished it themselves because the Iranians can say they did something great and did it on their own to future generations. It gives the country dignity.

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,

They still want to rule us and they think we are not their equals. They want the Kurds to be farmers, the Shiites to be civil servants and lower-ranking army soldiers and policemen, while they rule.

Phil Hartman

A master sergeant in the Army is in danger of losing his lavish lifestyle when a Pentagon official threatens to close Fort Baxter,

A lot of these people will have come from a background where they follow a particular ideology or particular leader, and I think that their foremost loyalty will have always been to their own particular group. It will be very difficult for all Iraqis to get the idea that this army is their army.

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

This is part of our ongoing work with the Army Corps, ... It's been reported that some of these cases may have prevented things like the modernization of levees. This is part of our normal work, to determine what has happened.