Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Blunt

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.

Evangeline Lilly

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

Mickey Rourke

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

Frank Herbert

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

George Grosz

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Ha-Joon Chang

The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

Jim Butcher

But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

Burke Marshall

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

Bubba Watson

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

James Dobson

Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.

Myles Munroe

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

Milton Friedman

Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.

Milton Friedman

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Wesley Clark

He also has his hands still on the sinews of power in Serbia. He controls the army, he controls the police, including a very effective and brutal secret police network, ... He controls the media, and he controls the economy and finances.

Li Peng

gradually upgrade weapons and other equipment and improve the defense capabilities and combat effectiveness of the army under modern technical and especially high-tech conditions.

For the past 10 years, we have been repeatedly hearing that a practical system will be out in 18 months. We plan to deliver the scaled-down 25-W version to the Army in early '06, and a commercial version will follow later in the year.

Ismail Haniyeh

Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population.

Ike Skelton

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

Gloria Steinem

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

Harry S Truman

When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

Georg Brandes

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Jerry Bridges

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Jerry Bridges

In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

I can't think of another incident that has more tarnished the reputation of the United States Army,

I cannot imagine a similar situation in a European country other than one like Spain, where the army was in power for so long.

Paul Rieckhoff

I don't think the Army is wrong by doing this, because the Army has to ensure some level of quality.

Boris Yeltsin

I am not just unsatisfied, I am outraged by the course of reform in the army and the state of the military altogether,

Marcos Baghdatis

I believe I should do the army and serve my country. I just need some peace of mind for a few years until my career is finished.