Company Commander Quotes

#1. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#2. I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Oliver North

#3. I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.

John Cullum

#4. A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.

Anthony Powell

#5. There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

Betsy Lerner

#6. Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Michael Leunig

#7. In a sense, the advances of modern medicine have given us two revolutions: we've undergone a biological transformation of the course of our lives and also a cultural transformation of how we think about that course.

Atul Gawande

#8. Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#9. If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

M T Anderson

#10. If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

Ed Harris

#11. Let's not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let's just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.

Evan Currie

#12. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

#13. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

Dante Alighieri

#14. Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked
"Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?"
"I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.

Maria V. Snyder

#15. I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

Campbell Scott

#16. If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.

Auliq Ice

#17. One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic

James Ohlen

#18. I might not like the fact that you are my commander, Greek, but as a soldier I will obey you regardless of my personal distaste for your company. (Valerius)
Gee, T-Red, doesn't it make you all warm and fuzzy just to be near him? (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Sarah McLachlan

#20. From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

Genie Francis