Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Scott

I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

Susan Collins

It is ... discouraging to hear today that there is only one Iraqi battalion that is fully capable, ... It doesn't feel like progress.

Andy Yakulis

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

Marie Sevigne

Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions

French Proverb

God is on the side of the strongest battalions

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.

John Walsh

Sgt. Travis Arndt was a dedicated young infantry soldier doing a difficult job in a difficult time. We grieve his loss here in Iraq. ... The men of this battalion will not forget his contributions and his sacrifice and we will miss him dearly.

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.

Clint Eastwood

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

Anne Patterson

Relay for Life is an opportunity for residents to come together as a community to support community members who have survived cancer, who are fighting cancer, and to remember those who lost their battle with cancer.

Tommy Haas

Pavel is a very good player, ... We have had some close battles in the past.

Richard Moore

Our offensive line did an outstanding job tonight. I thought if we would win the battle up front we would win the game. When your tailbacks are averaging over 12 yards a carry, that says a lot about the big boys up front.

Thomas Schaaf

Our legs were tired tonight. Everyone is talking about the things we can win, but we had to battle hard tonight.

Al Groh

Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded the players that battles are not won by digging in. If you dig in, you just become a target. Battles are won by attacking. The players did a very good job of that, and they can be proud of themselves.

Michael D. Barnes

Our mission is to carry on the Amistad story and its legacy. We have been to 80 ports to remind people of what happened and to battle racism.

David Rudow

Oracle is a tough place to work; it's like a battle every day.

Davis III

People just don't understand how we battle and how hard we try to win,

Bill Belichick

Statistically, we're fighting an uphill battle when we're on the negative turnover ratio and winning games, especially on the road, ... That's not normally the correlation. ... Right now, we're in a little bit of a dry spell.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Sheryl Garrett

Partnerships between industry and education are so very important in the lives of our youth. With this program, students will have a wonderful opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience in careers pertaining to the automotive industry.

Phil Smith

Paul is opened-minded about his options but obviously at this stage of his career he needs to be playing regularly.

Chris Bentley

Our objective is to heighten interest in the sciences as a career choice for high school students and to encourage students to participate in these programs.

Ed Bryant

Our legal careers got more stellar with each passing year.

Cowboy Troy

People laugh about that old joke where country music songs are about getting your truck repossessed. Well, I did have my truck repossessed, ... I did leave a good job for a shot at stardom only to end up with a career in retail.

Matt Paul

People have to be accountable for their records, and what they did early in their careers is informative. Secretary Culver will have to explain the two years he spent in the employ of his client as a lobbyist.

Jenny Shipley

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Bret Taylor

Our long-term goal is to have our product give directions that are as good as the taxi driver. Certainly it's not there yet.

Stacey Phillips

Our No. 1 goal is to make the Big Ten Tournament. We haven't been to the tournament since 1997, and that's way too long -- it's unacceptable... We have the talent and we certainly have the pitching.

Robert Edwards

Our new Sprinters are still 'bedding in' so it is too early to talk about their efficiency and fuel economy. But we have certainly been satisfied so far with their overall performance and versatility.

Tony George

Optimistic? It's certainly possible, but it's a long way from there. Everyone would like to see it happen sooner than later... but it's not something you can hurry along.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

A. Bush

rejects of the old ways of command and control from above.

Plutarch

Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to

Scott Benedict

Our mantra is good pitching and good defense, so that was kind of a typical game for us. For (Peacock) to be able to command three pitches like that was very impressive.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Scott Harris

That command just created an internal skeleton for this object.

E. B. White

Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office.

Elisa Massimino

Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.

Samuel Freeman Miller

It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

Mark Nardone

Sure it's frustrating. I'm not so sure that Big Red doesn't have something to do with that. It's not like we had all these breakdowns. I'd have to go back to the film to see exactly what we were doing. But sure it's frustrating.

Mickey Blatnik

Our pressure was effective, and that's exactly what we wanted to do. We wanted to make them play our game because we knew we couldn't let them settle into the half-court set.

James Mansinger

Our pitching was really good today. Zane has pitched well all season long, and It's always been there for Clayton. We've just been waiting for him to figure it out, and in his last two starts he's done exactly what he did today. Derek Ward also threw a strong inning for us, and Justin Wells did just what we needed him to do.

Kiki Vandeweghe

Overall, I think that the past incidents, sometimes it's not exactly what it's perceived to be.

Brian Smiley

Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly what is loose and what isn't loose. They know the guidelines in the inspection handbook, so they follow it.

Shane Black

Robert would come in and read just for the fun of it, and I'd be like, 'Hey, that's exactly what I had in mind,'

Bruce Raynor

Roger is exactly right, and it's an issue worth fighting for.

Spike Jonze

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Kevin Quinn

Mekenzie's running strong. I think Mekenzie's strength today was in the hills and knowing exactly where the hills were on the course.

Joe Godinho

Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.

Liz Walton

Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way.

Chad Johnson

Our press looked very good. At times it seemed like we could turn it on when we wanted to and be up by 20.

Fernando Pisani

We never looked at it like that. We just said, 'Let's keep playing like we're playing.' We played a patient game.

Mike Snyder

We never looked at aerial or ownership maps. I do that on purpose because I don't want to know. I don't want to be influenced.

David Gant

I whipped them all. They looked like grasshoppers.

Wendy Hall

I think they looked like they had a little doubt. They looked a little lethargic at times.

Roy Blumberg

I think they're probably somewhat disappointed. They probably looked at their portfolio and said, I didn't do as well as the Dow. I made money, but I'm kind of disappointed.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

Andy Robinson

People have got lots of opinions and when you're losing those opinions come out even more.

Ryan Kalil

Sure, we're losing some important guys, but we're going to be good.

Robbie Laing

I was just sick of being losing bidder.

Bertrand Russell

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Jimmy Johnson

That was a lot of fun, but I know how aggravating losing like that can be.

Kevin Pittsnogle

I think that's what we're more sad about than losing the game. We're not going to play again.

Bruce Fein

I think the administration is misreading the Senate and the public, because you end up losing more if your credibility is strained and people think you're playing them for dupes.

Jenna Morasca

My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

Julian Tavarez

I was the losing pitcher in that game, and it was the same score.

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

David Bowie

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

J. D. Hayworth

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

Barry Pepper

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Jack Purtell

I was a little worried going in, but we went in and we were the aggressor.

Bill Burr

Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they'd react, but they loved it.

William Morris

I was pretty worried about him for a while.

Byron Sanders

I was worried about them the whole time,

Bill Parcells

I think he kind of tweaked it a little bit. He's just not getting around. I'm getting a little worried about him to tell you the truth.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that we've ever even worried about that.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Ron Gardenhire

But as I told you before, we're a little worried about this.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.