Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlemagne

Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky.

Barry Humphries

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Bruce Lee

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Edwidge Danticat

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

Edmund Burke

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

Elif Safak

We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Edward Said

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah.

The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

Utah Phillips

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

Helmut Kohl

The army is under orders to defend every place,

Albert J. Nock

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

Albert Camus

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Daniel Inouye

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

Dylan Thomas

Join the army and see the next world.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people.

Daniel Radcliffe

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

Daniel Radcliffe

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

Daniel Radcliffe

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

Daniel Radcliffe

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

Daniel Radcliffe

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

Daniel Berrigan

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Daniel Craig

There are things about guys who are in the army. They're very particular, they have to be.

Dustin Hoffman

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Chuck Hagel

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Christopher Moore

. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.

Amy Chua

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

Ambrose Bierce

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Ambrose Bierce

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Ambrose Bierce

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

Alice Duer Miller

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.