Quotes About Admirals

#1. As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.

Ted Cruz

#2. Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

George Friedman

#3. As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#4. Generals, admirals, kings, and presidents make history; words change history. In more than two centuries of watching, at least that has not changed. -- Joshua Augustus Johnson. "Appomattox

Lloyd Vancil

#5. We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.

Holland Smith

#6. Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Helmut Schmidt

#7. Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

William Cowper

#8. The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they're not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.

Chris Kyle

#9. Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

Jim Morrison

#10. I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service, ... It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

John McCain

#11. So, how long has my mother had this questionable fetish for bisexual Barrayaran admirals? I don't think even the Betans have earrings for that one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#12. everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.

Julia Fierro

#13. Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.

David Ignatius

#14. Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Thomas Sydenham

#15. The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

William Falconer

#16. I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.

Helen McCrory

#17. Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.

Chris Kurtz

#18. God is with us to be utilized. His Power, His Love, His Thought, His Love, His Thought, His Presence must be at our disposal, like other great forces, such as sunshine and wind and rain. We can use them or not, as we please. We can use them in proportion to our ability.

Basil King

#19. Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

Venerable Bede

#20. The greatest evil is physical pain.

Saint Augustine

#21. See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

Tony Robbins

#22. I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.

Megan Alexander

#23. It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Leo Tolstoy