Top 1200 Swiss Army Knives Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

After I arrived in the United States, I realized that in the army, Israelis learn how to be part of something bigger than themselves.

I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

Well, I am from an army background. My dad is in the Defence forces and I have travelled enough in the north to get my Hindi right.

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you've dressed an African.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

As a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and a veteran of the United States Army, it is important that we celebrate and support our citizen-soldiers.

My grandfather was in the Indian Army, and my father started working to fund his own higher education and joined evening classes.

The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

My dad was an army cook, so I sort of come from that. But, working on 'Westworld,' a lot of the guys who I'm rolling up in there with, they're actually ex-military people.

In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.

In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

Army wives sacrifice a lot, we need to salute them because no matter what, they always put up a brave face.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

Being part of 'Raw 1000' in the same ring with Undertaker and Kane leading an army of young hungry wrestlers was amazing.

In the Army, we address a crisis by identifying critical objectives, planning a response, marshaling resources and communicating the plan clearly.

I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.

The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.

And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the help of Anatomicall Knives, and the light of Chymicall Furnaces, I study the Book of Nature, and consult the Glosses of Aristotle, Epicurus, Paracelsus, Harvey, Helmont, and other learn'd Expositors of that instructive Volumne; I find my self oftentimes reduc'd to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are thy works, O Lord? In wisdom hast thou made them all.

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"