Recruited Quotes

#1. I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.

David Sedaris

#2. Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Anand Gopal

#3. One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

Robert B. Laughlin

#4. As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.

Jill Tarter

#5. mostly I saw her efforts to induct me into adulthood much as a calf might see its mother's explanations of veal: I was being recruited into the great death march of biology - be born, reproduce, die.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.

Tyler Hamilton

#7. . 'Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they're cops all the time, never mind it's a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.'
He tsks at me. 'Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?

Sarah Alderson

#8. But fight him we must. You were recruited to Watford because we believe the
Humdrum has taken a special interest in you. We want to protect you; I vow to do so with my life. But you must learn, Simon, as soon as possible, how best to protect yourself.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

Victor Burgin

#10. Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

Raymond Kelly

#11. I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Chely Wright

#12. Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.

Reza Aslan

#13. The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

John Scalzi

#14. For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-"
"I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?

Rachel Vincent

#15. You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.

Herb Brooks

#16. Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

Eric Van Lustbader

#17. Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

Rita Hayworth

#18. Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Emile M. Cioran

#19. We have to deal with a lot of things. One of them is we have to deal with fake conservatives that are bought-and-paid for by the Karl Rove establishment. Unfortunately, some in my area have recruited a primary opponent against me.

Matt Shea

#20. You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people in our community that can give an hour a week. I was recruited because I started gangbanging at 12. I understand the structure; I understand the people inside.

Malik Yusef

#21. I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

Sting

#22. My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

Aldrich Ames

#23. What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#24. The city is recruited from the country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. It is precisely among young, educated radicals, warns Austin, that a new generation of cyber warriors will be recruited.

Ted Koppel

#26. When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

Solomon Ortiz

#27. With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Gus Van Sant

#28. We wanted to select our own labour. In another year the time will be up for most of the original gang. You see, they were recruited during the first year of Berande, and their contracts expire on different months.

Jack London

#29. I was recruited by the dead,' Zak said. 'Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to understand what they might have thought and done that could survive them, that could speak across the ages, that could be continued even now.

Greg Egan

#30. Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.

Patrick McGrath

#31. When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

Erwin McManus

#32. In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Herbert Hoover

#33. Whenever armed forces ... are used, the idea of combat must be present ... The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#34. I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

Jalen Rose

#35. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

#36. We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Gore Vidal

#37. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

John Perkins

#38. Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

John M. McHugh

#39. The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.

Terry Hoeppner

#40. One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

Kesha Rogers

#41. It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

Eli Broad

#42. I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Tom Izzo

#43. My name is Amy Gumm - and I'm the other girl from Kansas. I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. I've been trained to fight. And I have a mission: Remove the Tin Woodman's heart. Steal the Scarecrow's brain. Take the Lion's courage. And - Dorothy must die.

Danielle Paige

#44. Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

John Patrick

#45. I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

John Perkins

#46. My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Ryan Lochte

#47. In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.

Marshall Curry

#48. She made my favorite breakfast and recruited me to be the cheerleader of her mistake.

Amy Schumer

#49. I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

Woody Hayes

#50. When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

Eric Dickerson

#51. An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#52. The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

Graham Joyce

#53. We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

Ovid

#54. Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal's obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#55. No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

Scott Pelley

#56. I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us."

Vivian Balakrishnan

#57. When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.

John Le Carre

#58. England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus

George Orwell

#59. The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

John Wesley

#60. It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Sun Tzu

#61. In some countries - Finland and Singapore and South Korea, for instance - future schoolteachers are recruited from the best college-bound students, whereas a teacher in the United States is more likely to come from the bottom half of her class.

Anonymous

#62. Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

Barbara Ehrenreich