Top 1200 Swiss Army Knives Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Hollywood continues to present the US army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They were that type of well-educated people who could recognize a good artist before others, and she was like that. Even if it was against something inside her. Tell me one actress in 1972 in France, except Delphine, at her level, who would love Hôtel Monterey. No one.

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

One of the key challenges the military has faced - and the Army, in particular - is defining our requirements and keeping them stable.

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

When we are growing up, we all have our dreams - and for me, I idolised the men of the Indian army, navy, air force.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

My grandfather served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps, and he was shot down over Normandy in August 1944.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

I feel proud every time I recall the valour and courage of our army men in the war against Pakistan.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army

I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes you realize how very precious life is.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18.

My father is a retired Navy officer; my sister is in the army. For me, defence services have been close to my heart.

Army Corps activities have a significant impact on the health, public safety, and overall quality of life for many Mississippians.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.