Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Bob Ainsworth

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

Haley Barbour

There is incredible evidence that the casualties are more than 50, maybe 80, ... and it seems likely that that's not the end of it. It may be higher, maybe substantially.

Mounting a ground invasion here with hundreds of thousands, with tens of thousands of soldiers fighting from village to village, week by week, with untold numbers of casualties is not something we think is in our national interest,

Now we find out that the casualties might have exceeded 100.

We understand that there was some civilian casualties during the operation. We do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred,

Henry Shelton

I think the prospect for casualties remains very real and high, ... There is no such thing as a risk-free military operation.

Alan Greenspan

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Jim Gerlach

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

Barry Humphries

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

Dennis Kucinich

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

Cofer Black

We have 18 more total events, five more significant events and 13 more nonsignificant events than originally reported. These new figures are accompanied by a dramatic increase in the numbers of casualties originally calculated.

There has to be some real indication that we're moving the troops out. There has to be an indication that casualties are tapering off.

Doris Goodwin

I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.

Evan Bayh

We have to learn from these mistakes so that we do better to minimize the number of casualties to win this thing, ... It's the lack of any introspection that I find to be very troubling.

Most of the casualties occurred as factory gates were locked (from the outside).

Steven Pinker

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Ike Skelton

As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion's worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are taking on volunteers who can stand the rigors, ... Some of the volunteers are sleeping on the floor. They don't want people to go down there and become casualties themselves. The people who aren't able to withstand those difficulties are probably better suited to stay here and help out.

As in any time when our operations are very proactive and going out after the terrorists groups, the insurgent groups, there is always the possibility that our casualties will go up,

this war will come to a speedy conclusion to keep the number of victims and casualties as low as possible.

These 10 elephants are the latest casualties in the escalating human-elephant conflict in central Sumatra, the direct result of uncontrolled destruction of their forest habitat.

The insurgency is still mounting an effort comparable to where they were a year ago. We do something we think will change things, but a month or two later casualties and the level of violence are back to where they were.

It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.

If you sit still for a few minutes, the insurgents will have time to figure out where you are, that you are a Westerner, and take you out. A lot of the casualties are from situations like that.

Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,

The number of casualties and the damage suggest that there could have been more than one landmine but we have not confirmed that at this stage.

Jim Rohn

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Phil Klay

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.