Quotes About Army Training

#1. Finished their compulsory training under universal service and were between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-four were classed as reserves. Upon mobilization the youngest classes filled out the regular army units to war strength; the others were formed into reserve regiments,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.

Kim Harrison

#3. Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Bill Gates

#4. Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Douglas MacArthur

#5. We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.

Sergei Lavrov

#6. I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Antony Beevor

#7. our Army, (U. S.), would adopt the systematic methods of any of our large manufacturing concerns, they could either cut off half the amount of money they are now expending or use that much additional for practical training

Herbert W. McBride

#8. One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

Daniel Inouye

#9. I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

Allan Savory

#10. I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

Etgar Keret

#11. You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect; nobody is.

Preity Zinta

#12. When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut - sometimes when you look at a photograph, you just know it's the shot. Sometimes it's about the connection, or about the simplicity of the composition.

Russell James

#13. My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.

Nigel Hamilton

#14. In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".

Honeya

#15. You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God's fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

Hillary Clinton

#17. While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

Baruj Benacerraf

#18. The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Ninette De Valois

#19. An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself ... I have very strong security.

Oleg Deripaska

#21. For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army.

Ann Jones

#22. You look older."
"Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

Veronica Roth

#23. Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.

Renee Montagne

#24. Never speak of defeat before battle.

George R R Martin

#25. When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.

Robert Gottlieb

#26. It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

Gabrielle Zevin

#27. Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

Deepak Chopra

#28. There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

Ed Gorman

#29. As if my world was dark and Jethro was the sun bringing me nutrition I never knew I needed.

Pepper Winters

#30. Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

Oliver Stone