Top 1200 Armed Forces Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

As a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the Congressional Joint Strike Fighter Caucus, I have been a staunch supporter of the production of the F-35 since day one and understand the importance of its production for my fellow Texans and our nation's security.

In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.

There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

From Obama to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and the rest of the media-political elite, the whole time they're attacking your right to own a gun, they're enjoying armed security for themselves.

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout counter of our dreams, we must not be afraid to hurl the fruit cocktail can of hope.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land.

I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety and that animosity isn't as strong in other places as it is in the U.S., partially because the police are armed here.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Ivory is quickly becoming the new blood diamond of Africa and one that fuels militia battles. Some of the most notorious armed groups on the continent, including the Lord's Resistance Army, are hunting down elephants and using the tusks to buy weapons.

In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

Being given the honorary rank of brat is the armed services' way of saying thank you to us kids for having grit too. They understand that when one member of a family joins the military, the whole family bears the weight of their service.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.

The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.

A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous when the streets are full of "civilians" who may or may not be armed. Poor babies!

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

Fighter pilots and special operations forces guys have the same DNA.

However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

Doing improv regularly forces you to be better almost without trying.

For the most part, we've moved past the awkward-for-everyone period of food bloggers toting giant DSLR cameras and flash kits in restaurants, but that's been replaced by almost everyone armed with a phone stopping to immortalise their breakfast.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

I don't know what forces Hindi satellite channels to indulge in so much negativity.

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.