Operations Quotes · Page 13

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.

— Leon Panetta

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

— John F. Kerry

The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.

— Ben Bernanke

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

— Samuel Johnson

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

— Meles Zenawi

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

— Flannery O'Connor

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

— Li Peng

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

— Joyce Cary

Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance,…

— Maurice de Saxe

Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read…

— David Ogilvy

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees…

— John Harvey Kellogg

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform…

— Anonymous

I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every…

— Karl Donitz

[Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the…

— David S. Broder

Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it…

— Ramana Maharshi

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple…

— Milton Friedman

Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's…

— Robert S. Mendelsohn

Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much…

— Scott Westerfeld

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position…

— Jonathan Chait

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We…

— Thomas Aquinas

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature…

— Matthew Arnold

The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed…

— Thomas Huxley

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.

— Milton Friedman

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

— Bill Pullman

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

— Sun Tzu

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication…

— Anonymous

How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting…

— Greg Sams

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of…

— Gaston Leroux

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as…

— Edward Abbey

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

— Ita Buttrose

Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the…

— Rupert Murdoch

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance...

— Thomas Pynchon

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

— Chris Matthews

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could…

— Alan Turing

“The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you…

— David Keirsey

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to…

— Albert Gallatin