Quotes About Colonels

#1. The generals commanded the colonels and the colonels commanded the majors and the majors commanded the captains and the captains commanded the private, who marched with an air of proud importance because it required so many officers to give him his orders.

L. Frank Baum

#2. I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

Gerald Griffin

#3. It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

Nikola Tesla

#4. In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

Walter Isaacson

#5. Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#6. I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

Garry Kasparov

#7. I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

Garry Kasparov

#8. Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.

Klaus Lackner

#9. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges

Jan Karon

#10. Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.

Quentin Tarantino

#11. Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

Tom Bergeron

#12. You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

Irvin S. Cobb

#13. Mr. Cuervo and I - and all of his Mexican cousins are no longer on speaking terms

K.A. Tucker

#14. Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

John McPhee

#15. Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

Jack O'Neill

#16. We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

Malcolm Turnbull

#17. Kari's really beautiful." "Beauty has its limits," I say. "Hers ends on the surface.

Katie Kacvinsky

#18. The end time worshipper will concentrate on the life of God in him rather than the works of God through him.

Jenny Watson

#19. Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

C.S. Lewis

#20. When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within.

Samael Aun Weor