Top 195 Tanks Quotes & Sayings

There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks...still safer than a Toyota.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria.

99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on.

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks now. There are people who are leaving the universities and working for the government or in think tanks, simply looking for freedom.

Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

I will say A Pea in the Pod saved my life - at the end of my pregnancy. I even wear their tanks now to work out in because they're really long.

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties or shills of whatever stripe.

I remember after the Games I was lifting weights with propane tanks on them, and getting to experience opening ceremonies again was something I dreamed of every day.

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.

In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.