Quotes About Lieutenants

#1. Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Douglas Hurd

#2. The leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.

Steven B. Sample

#3. If he considered God at all, he thought of Him as an old and honored general, retired and gray, living among remembered battles and putting wreaths on the graves of his lieutenants several times a year.

John Steinbeck

#4. We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#5. No Justice of Toren medic would give One Esk a body with a voice like Breq's. Not unless she wanted to seriously annoy the Esk lieutenants.

Ann Leckie

#6. The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

William Shakespeare

#7. The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

King James I

#8. The Them hesitated. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. They left.

Terry Pratchett

#9. I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

Henry V. O'Neil

#10. It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main enemy. We're simply in the way of what they want to do in their own world, which is to destroy police states and Israel.

Michael Scheuer

#11. The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Walter Lippmann

#12. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Neil Gaiman

#13. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Danforth Armour

#14. God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

John Yoo

#16. The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here.

Daphne Zuniga

#17. My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

Miley Cyrus

#18. One basic explanation for depression is that it is anger turned inward.

Candace R.M. Gorham

#19. Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Charlie Gehringer

#20. Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Jim Rohn

#21. In a world divided by differences of nationality, race, colour, religion and wealth [the rule of law] is one of the greatest unifying factors, perhaps the greatest, the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion.

Tom Bingham

#22. Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Kathryn Bigelow

#23. She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

Colum McCann

#24. The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Kelly Miller

#25. The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Liebknecht

#26. The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We

Malcolm Gladwell

#27. The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Will Durant

#28. Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.

Mark Bowden

#29. I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

Patrick Ness

#30. Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Meryl Streep