Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Jeff Bingaman

I think the decision by the BRAC commission to reject the Pentagon recommendations to move the Army Research Laboratory from White Sands Missile Range to Maryland was very good news. That, I think, was the good news of the day.

It is green and still has some of the Army markings on it,

I was a first lieutenant in the army in the early part of my pro career, ... I would work during the week and then fly and meet the team and play that weekend. Then, I would hop back on a plane and be back for roll call at 6 a.m. Monday.

We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus. It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus, ... It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

What Dr. Harvey has done is directed an Army-wide review of how we notify family members,

There is no hesitation about this, as the political decision has been taken. We are withdrawing every single official from Lebanon, whether he is a regular army soldier, or whether he is in the security or intelligence forces.

The People's Liberation Army is very rich, very powerful and all-knowing. You must keep looking over your shoulder. This is an exceedingly jealous business and I find pieces that others can't find, I know people they don't know.

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

Pat White

We're now operating in a territory where the Mehdi Army is not used to us being.

Larry Coker

What I like about him is that he's talented, he's physical and the guy is not intimidated by anything. You talk about the deer-in-the-headlights look. I can guarantee you, if the Russian Army comes over here, he won't have the deer-in-the-headlights look.

Hideo Kojima

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

We have to be able to plan each step. There is a virtual army of folks working on it.

I actually believe that I am proof positive that the current policy of training the Iraqi army -- of recruiting, training and buddying them worked -- because it was the Iraqis that got me out.

Evo Morales

It is something we will have to deal with. We will deepen investigation and the Justice will have to try army officers under charges of treason .

I thought we ought to follow the army around for a couple months instead of a week or two, and to do an hour and a half thing instead of a 45 second clip.

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

From the time they brought Oliver back into the country, he was never alone, there was always a soldier with him, ... He was never by himself, the Army really took care of their own.

For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire.

If it were to rain a lot, there is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees might break,

Michael Fitzpatrick

If the stock market were not making five- and six-year highs, Iran and the U.S. were fast friends and the Nigerian militants were stuffing flowers in the gun muzzles of the Nigerian army -- then we might be worried about a reversal, but not now.

He was down in Pennsylvania avoiding us, ... He was staying in a Salvation Army.

I wouldnt brag too much about this one because its so small, but its still seven straight months.

If we get a feeling that they don't want us, then we'll go elsewhere. We don't want to go through what The Salvation Army went through.

I got the first call about a week ago, right after contractors finished doing some sewer work. I did contact the Army Corps and asked them to take care of that.

Deng Xiaoping

If things continue like this, we could even end up under house arrest, ... After thinking long and hard about this, I've concluded that we should bring in the People's Liberation Army and declare martial law in Beijing.

Antony Beevor

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

This shows that the guard is part of the total army and the national mission is helping stabilize Iraq.

We're hoping to measure it in weeks, but we don't really know. We have an army. They're working all kinds of people, and then in four or five days they're going to give us another assessment.

We see lots of bluster from the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and the Pentagon. But at the very top levels of government on both sides there is a consistent acknowledgement that this is one of the most important relationships for global stability.

The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy.