Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a 24-hour operation. We've got a virtual army out there.

It is the Serb army right now -- the Yugoslav national army -- that is ethnically cleansing whole sectors of Kosovo in the south, in a manner very much reminiscent of Bosnia. The question is, can we stand by and let it happen?

It kind of makes you wonder who is in charge at the Army Corps of Engineers.

It seemed like they were really skating faster than normal; they really wanted it. Our team is built on a lot of skill, a lot of teamwork. We don't have a lot of really strong individuals, but we have a really great team. It's really built on the Army standard of playing together, good passing ... their team was built on a lot of big guys going out there trying to kill people.

It's great to celebrate, ... but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

That's part of being local. We're here. We told those tenants we'd stand behind them, and we've got a plan, we've got an army put together, and we will stand behind them.

Eliot Engel

That's a change in the attitude from a week, two weeks, a month ago, ... We've made progress. I think the Army is giving these ladies the proper respect.

It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower.

It's not going to be D.C.'s decision. The Department of Defense has to sign off. The Army has to sign off. But the community can have a major impact on how this plan is shaped.

Rudyard Kipling

Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.

A large number of Mahdi Army men have gone to protect (voting) centers

(Brad) came over and we watched the Army-Navy game on TV and he got sucked in a little bit. When you go there, your jaw just drops and he knew it was for him.

Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see.

For an old Army officer, it's like one last assignment.

It's one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they're lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which have very few women in those roles.

Joe Nemechek

It's not the ideal situation when you can't use the best stuff you bring to the track. We just never found a comfort zone with the backup Army Chevrolet.

It's more of a communications tool. It's tied to recruiting in that it's communicating what the Army is.

It's always a great rivalry game with Army-Navy and I think our guys showed a lot of heart on the road today. They showed a lot of different defenses and I think our guys did a good job executing.

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.

James A. Michener

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Franz Halder

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

Jeb Bush

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

Jeaniene Frost

Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.

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!