Armchair Generals Quotes

#1. I have the impression that if the "armchair generals" arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about Saddam Hussein, there would have been a rather abrupt "regime change" in Iraq long before now.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.

Beth Hoffman

#3. People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#4. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?

Christopher Hitchens

#5. We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

LL Cool J

#6. And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

Bram Stoker

#7. Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Kate Nash

#8. What can I say? I'm like a playground water fountain, I live to wet people's pants.

Frances Winkler

#9. Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside.

Gary Haugen

#10. Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

#11. It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Thomas Sowell