Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Henry Shelton

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

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.

Samuel Berger

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,

Shaukat Sultan

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

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.

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.

Roger King

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

Ron Perry

Our No. 1 enemy on this thing is the wind and the terrain we have here.

John Tortorella

Remember Good is the Enemy of Great? This year, we need to say that Great is the Enemy of Excellent.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your enemy's enemy is your friend

C. S. Lewis

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Cecil Beaton

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

Jason Sehorn

Kyle and I are loving it here, and it feels like we belong, ... In this league you never know when you'll be staring the enemy in the face -- and he's no longer the enemy.

Dennis Tarsi

Just the fact that we have one - that's like the enemy .

Duo Maxwell

I hate to say this, but you don't have the skill to be my enemy

Bible Bible

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

Kathy Collins

It is a terrible thing that happened, and they will be punished accordingly.

Barack Obama

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Kathie Brown

It just isn't right. Somebody should be punished for this.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.