Army Quotes - Page 30

• My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

  Ian Harding

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Chuck Hagel

  Disaster, Ends, Dangerous

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• It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

  Mike Jackson

  Philosophy, Goes On, Responsible

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• In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Space, Territory

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• Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

  Etgar Keret

  Strong, Writing, Fighting

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• I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

  Rick James

  Want

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 28, 2001.

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• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Wise, Race, Self

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Corporations, Economy, Staff

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• In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Passion, Buddhism, Humanity

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• When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

  William Sanderson

  Book, Law, Noble

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

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• My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

  Veronica Webb

  Mean, Government, Years

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, War, Book

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Military police is very timely for our army.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Military, Police, Timely

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

  George W. Bush

  Afghan

  A joint press conference of President George W. Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House, www.washingtonpost.com. September 23, 2004.

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• We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Fighter, Raises, Train

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• We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Children, Land, Giving

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• It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  People, Film, Dies

  "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'" by Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 27, 2012.

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• And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. I know Who goes before me. I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side. The One who reigns forever, He is a Friend of mine. The God of angel armies Is always by my side.

  Chris Tomlin

  Angel, Hands, Forever

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• I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.

  James Lee

  Dream, Home, Dark

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Dad, Funeral, My Family

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• The compelling thing about making art — or making anything, I suppose — is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Art, War, Men

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

  Jason Gann

  Dad, School, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

  John Vinocur

  Real, War, Loss

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• One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Space, Church

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.2, Harper Collins

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