Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Smith

Sir, our Iraqi partners have been conducting battalion and Brigade-size operations since April. They have been planning and coordinating with other Iraqi security forces, such as the Iraqi police and local government agencies, preparing for this referendum. Sir, we as coalition forces, we have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Andy Yakulis

Basically, the battalion commander of any unit is responsible for anything that unit does or fails to do.

Clint Eastwood

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Alvaro Uribe

When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.

Craig Brown

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

Kit Bond

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

Scott Evans

Today is a great day as we stand with you to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of the men and women of the 216th Engineer Battalion through what was a very long, challenging year in Iraq, ... It was indeed an honor to serve with the men and women who comprised the 216th.

John Towers

I see more soldiers daily than I did as a battalion commander.

Scott Lewis

I said, 'I want to talk to someone big,' ... Ten minutes later, we were with the battalion commander.

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Jules Verne

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

John Reid

While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,

Cindy Sheehan

Who do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?

Eileen collins

Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.

John Wycliffe

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Dawn Kelsch

If all else fails we will still have the lakes, the land, the horses and the fish, and there are a lot of fish.

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

A.J. Chilson

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Matt Lundy

We take it very seriously when someone fails validation and then responds by identifying where they received counterfeit or infringing products.

Bible Bible

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Baudelaire

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.