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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.
After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian.
Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.
Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.
To be awarded with an honour of the stature of a Padma Bhushan, which is deemed as one of the three highest civilian awards in our country, is just gratifying.
Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
For those who have served in combat, life is never the same. It puts the most stressful civilian situations into a whole different context.
I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.
Gaddafi tried to give a masterclass to men like the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, on how to crush a civilian uprising.
I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.
As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.
I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.
Congress has an obligation to ease the challenges our veterans face when they come home and return to civilian life.
We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.
The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely Be Discarded In Favor Of A Military Form Of Government
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.
We believe that we could do a great deal to neutralise regional conflicts. Also, for example, to continue joint activities in space, for peaceful civilian purposes.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.
We're extremely appreciative of all the crime lab and other civilian personnel who help solve crimes and make Missouri safer.
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.
Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.
One of the casualties of Israel becoming an increasingly partisan issue has been American Jews themselves, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic and who see Israel's rightward turn as betraying fundamental liberal values.
All civilian politicians in Pakistan are puppets of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), military, and the Taliban.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
Musharraf's government has a civilian face - there are still elections and assemblies - and he has come to believe his own propaganda that he really is a democrat.
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.
We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.
While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.
Together, with technology as an enabler, we can help our veterans find meaningful civilian careers that match their skills and interest.
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.
Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
