Top 1200 Us Military Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

The military is the most esteemed American institution.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

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

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

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

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.

There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

I come from a very political and military family.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

I have dedicated half my life to military service.

I think military is a very special thing.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.

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

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

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

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

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

I really like visiting military bases.

I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

I hang around military guys and like it.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.

I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one. And, number two, we're not expressing appreciation and acknowledging the contribution that rural America makes. Where does your food come from? Where does the water come from? Where does the energy feedstock come from? It all comes from rural areas. Where does your military come from? Nearly 35 to 40 percent of the military is from 15 percent of America's population living in rural America. It makes a tremendous contribution to this country. It just isn't recognized.

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

There's nothing wrong with us. There's nothing missing in us. Everything is for us and there is nothing against us. Let us remember this together.

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

In America, we have a depleted military. It has to be helped, has to be fixed.

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

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

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Most people know nobody in the military.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

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

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

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

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

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

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell on the critical or the negative. Let us pray for strength; let us pray for capacity and desire to assist others. Let us radiate the light of the gospel at all times and all places, that the Spirit of the Redeemer may radiate from us.