Top 1200 Swiss Army Knives Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.

My experience at West Point and my service as an army officer have molded the way I look at the world.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just been taken hostage, but everyone seems to be acting like having a TALKING SKELETON in the room is perfectly normal. And you, where are your eyes? How can you see? How come the only people with eyes in this room are me and her?

The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

My Lovatics, thank you so much, Im so honored. You guys are such an incredible force and an amazing army.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

The Salvation Army do a lot more than sit around the Christmas tree with a band.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

I thought to myself, "Join the army!" It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.

What makes up who I am now is our fans, ARMY, and they are the reason I'm able to do music.

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

I joined the Rhodesian army in 1975, having trained for six weeks outside Bulawayo.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Think about your immune system as being an army, and it's fighting infection.

I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away.

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

God is building an army all over the place, in Hollywood as well. So it feels good to be a part of it.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.