Top 1200 Military Command Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

I'm not fretting over control with you. You can have all of the command you desire as long as we're together. I'll just save my demands for the bedroom." I flushed. Bones just chuckled and brought my hand to his lips.

The U.S. Military is no place for social experiments.

I think military is a very special thing.

In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.

I come from a very political and military family.

A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

At the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks [about territories]. What command is given in this case in judo? You probably know better than I do: Yoshi (continue). So we will continue.

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

I hang around military guys and like it.

There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

I think it's a common misconception that because you're a woman, you can't command a set and have people respect you, and for some reason, Hollywood is really far behind every other industry. It's getting better; it's just slow.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

I have dedicated half my life to military service.

The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

The fact that people are dropping out of the labour force says one of two things: either employers have no use for them, or they have no use for the jobs that are being offered at the wages they can command.

I am proud to be a SEAL and serve in the military.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.

In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.

I've always had a huge appreciation of the military.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Most people know nobody in the military.

The military is the most esteemed American institution.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.

Everybody in the military is a Democrat. They just don't know it.

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

I really like visiting military bases.

A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

My father and brothers were in the military.

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

The EU is a community of values, not military buildups.