Quotes About Army Chief

#1. When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act.

Pietro Badoglio

#2. In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

Mason Cooley

#3. Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

Louisa May Alcott

#4. Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Elie Wiesel

#5. Never adjust your goals, amplify your might.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.

Charles A. Beard

#7. I was on the pom pom team, I was on the cheerleading team, I sang. I played football with the guys 'cause I didn't know how to play double dutch. Anything to get out the house.

Dreezy

#8. As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.

Philippe Petit

#9. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Ronnie Montrose

#10. The chief musician-a sergeant-led the twelve-nuan regimental band that provided entertainment as well as the music to which the army marched and fought.

Richard Bruce Winders

#11. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

Jules Renard

#14. ...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Joe Abercrombie

#15. In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Winston Churchill

#16. Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Roald Dahl

#17. Worth the wait," Joe muttered and my head tipped back.
"What?"
"Every bit of it. Every day, every week, every year, every fuckin' second, buddy," he kept muttering, his eyes intense, his face serious and my breath caught, "this. All of it. Worth the wait.

Kristen Ashley

#18. So, the moral of that story, other than never underestimate an independent bookseller, was that the Continental Army and its commander in chief had a soft spot for Chief Artillery Officer Henry Knox.

Sarah Vowell

#19. [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

#20. I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.

Jen Lancaster

#21. It was one of those confused moments, emotionally, when the listener could not be quite sure what position radio was takings - for hurricanes or against them. A

E.B. White

#22. The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.

Lotus Coffman

#23. The right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. When there is peace and harmony within, these questions lose their meaning. (Songs of the Mist - Page 95)

Shashi

#24. I wish I could say, "No more Mr. Nice Guy," but the boat sailed on that one a long time ago.

Richard Kadrey

#25. The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Vittorio Alfieri

#26. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

Ani DiFranco

#27. The beautiful thing about the law of attraction is that you can begin where you are, and you can begin to think, real thinking, and you can begin to generate within yourself a feeling tone of harmony and happiness. The law will begin to respond to that.

Michael Beckwith