Lieutenants Quotes - Page 3

• To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan

  Terry Goodkind

  Mistake, Simple, Traitor

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• I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.

  Michael Shaara

  Wall, Distance, Believe

  "Fictional character: Lieutenant General James Longstreet". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. October 8, 1993.

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• Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently. "Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. "Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Angel, Hands

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.136, Random House

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• You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Accessories, Pearls

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.120, Penguin

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• Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be forgotten. They will achieve Elysium, I am sure." She glared pointedly at Hades. He shrugged. "Probably." Artemis glared at him some more. Okay," Hades grumbled. "I'll streamline their application process.

  Rick Riordan

  Elysium, Hunters, Done

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Smart, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.

  James Patterson

  Military, War, Eye

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.137, Random House

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• Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

  Joseph Heller

  Smart, People, Mind

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing two tiny pointers into jeweled alignment while tons of heavy artillery go fluttering overhead: the prosaic, civilian-looking dial of the watch has restored, however briefly, an illusion of personal control. Good, it counsels, looking tidily up from the hairs and veins of each terribly vulnerable wrist; fine: so far, everything's happening right on time.

  Richard Yates

  Hair, Two, Watches

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.213, Random House

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• The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but...

  Gene Roddenberry

  Cute, Mean, Numbers

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• I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Eye, Men

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.136, Random House

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• Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

  Nora Roberts

  Romance, Lips, Touched

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.121, Penguin

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• Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Dallas, Bite Me

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

  Walter Lippmann

  Angel, Lost Ones, Devil

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.

  Edward Forbes

  Hands, Interesting, Streams

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• Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

  John Yoo

  Fighting, Iraq, Abuse

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• I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.

  Mike Curb

  Years, Lasts, Republican

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• I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.

  Don Siegelman

  Country, War, Eight

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.

  Charles Tilly

  Men, People, Political

  Charles Tilly, Gabriel Ardant, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative Politics (1975). “The Formation of national States in Western Europe”, Princeton Univ Pr

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• Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

  Douglas Hurd

  Men, Action, Justified

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• This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Fate, Order

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.521

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• The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Party, Night, Tree

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• I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Peace, War, Army

  Yitzhak Rabin's speech to the US Congress, July 26, 1994.

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