Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

George W. Bush

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

George W. Bush

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

George W. Bush

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

George Orwell

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

Jean Cocteau

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

George Carlin

The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

George F. Kennan

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

Francis Ford Coppola

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Francine Prose

You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.

Francis Bacon

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Jack O'Connell

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

Kevin Drew

Thank you so very, very much. Look at us all. We're an army.

Cassie Ventura

I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

Henri Bergson

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

Helen Keller

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

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,