"Workers of the World, We Apologize."

Read a banner held by demonstrators in Red Square, Moscow November 20th 1989

I dunno who this can be attributed to, but ive heard it somewhere once, thought about it for a real long time, and find it to be true.

"The Amateur thinks about tactics; the Professional thinks about logistics."
-Unknown

"NUTS!"

American General McAuliffe's response to the German request for the US 101st Airborne's surrender at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Famous Quotes
 

Winston Churchill about his Labour opponent Clemens Attlee:
He's a sheep in wolfs clothing.

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"Workers of the World: unite!"
Karl Marx

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"Women of the world: unite!
And let hím sleep on the wet spot tonight..."
(Comedian about woman emancipation in the early seventies)

Genesis 1
[3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Proverbs 26
[11] As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Ecclesiastes 12
[8] Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

John 3
[6] That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[7] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

[16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Revelation 22
[13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

One of the following quotes is randomly displayed by Operation Flashpoint during a player's death scene:

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
Georges Clemenceau

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
Pink Floyd

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.
J.R.R.Tolkien

And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death.
J.R.R.Tolkien

As to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths; No doubt I have died, myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Francis Meehan

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death and whatever is matters.
C.S.Lewis

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.
James Thurber

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

...Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu

In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthur

War isn't about who's right, its about who's left.
Anders Russell

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General G. C. Patton

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward Harriman

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napolean Hill

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Lewis Carroll

Wow Avon Lady! That's a mighty fine list of quotes you have there... :yep:


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Moulin Rouge

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" President Kennedy

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." General George Patton

"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
- Erwin Rommel

"I would rather he had given me one more division"
- Rommel, when Hitler made him a Field Marshall

"An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind."
- Gandhi

"The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligation to follow it if they did."
- Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov, father of the Russian blue water navy

"Strike hard and fast and do not separate"
- General Heinz Guderian

"I want to go to zero, and I'll tell you why: If we and the Russians can go to zero nuclear weapons, then think what that does for us in our efforts to counter the new war... Think how intolerant we will be of nations that are developing nuclear weapons if we have none. Think of the high moral ground we secure by having none... It's kind of hard for us to say to North Korea, 'You are terrible people, you're developing a nuclear weapons,' when we have oh, 8,000."
- General Charles Horner

On Life:
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon

"Some people see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" -Robert F. Kennedy


And continuing on the war theme:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -George W. Bush, August 5, 2004

"There are three things to remember about being a Starfleet captain: keep your shirt tucked in; go down with the ship; and never abandon a member of your crew." -Captain Kathryn Janeway

"When diplomacy fails there’s only one option - violence. Force must be applied without apology. It’s the Starfleet way." -Evil Psudo Capt Janeway.

"Religion is the opiate of the masses"-Karl Marx

"Opium is the religion of the masses"-John Lennon

"The solution to war is to make a law that before anyone can fire a gun on a battlefield he has to drop his pants. Everyone would be too busy laughing to shoot"-John Lennon

"If you search the annals of military history, you will not find a better commander than Ulysses S. Grant"-Robert E. Lee

"I'd say my life sucks, but it's not that good"-Me

"One thing is certain: we're losing the peace. Which means a war could be our only hope."
Capt Sisko


"You'd shoot a man in the back?"
"It's the safest way, isn't it?"
Odo and Garak

"Always burn your bridges behind you; you never know who might be trying to follow."
Enabran Tain

"It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."
Odo