Army Lieutenant Quotes

#1. [General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.

Russell S. Bonds

#2. With a knock, a slim army lieutenant came in, introduced himself as James Benford, and handed Groves a briefing summary folder. "You have to approve these, sir." Karl

Gregory Benford

#3. The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

Nina Arianda

#5. I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

Sandra Bullock

#6. The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

David Almond

#7. Many age-related diseases are caused by an immune system out of balance. Excessive or unnecessary inflammation accelerates heart disease, bone loss,

Dan Buettner

#8. I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.

Sara Quin

#9. In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

Simon Blackburn

#10. After seventeen days of flying school he could now call himself a pilot. After putting in twenty-five hours of flying time, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. W

Winston Groom

#11. Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. If our hearts are closed, if our hearts are made of stone, the stones find their way into our hands and we are ready to throw them.

Pope Francis

#13. Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#14. Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way.

William Gibson

#15. You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

Charles S. Dutton

#16. First Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer - his new regular army rank dated to July 17 - was

Thom Hatch

#17. I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff.

Amy Sedaris

#18. The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

George Carlin

#19. Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she's different, I told myself.

Penelope Douglas

#20. Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.

John F. Kerry

#21. I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

Nicolas Cage