Quotes About Headquarters

A popular aphorism soon circulated among frontline troops: "Never were so few commanded by so many from so far." Asked why the Germans failed to bomb AFHQ headquarters, a cynical American major replied, "Because it's worth fifty divisions to them.

A forward patrol reported capturing a French headquarters near La Sénia, five miles south of Oran, but the office safe yielded only two brassieres and a volume of risqué tales.

five seconds. At 9:30 a headquarters clerk scribbled in the

After the services, the many flower offerings sent in Cody's memory were taken to the headquarters of the Denver Flower Girls Association, where they were dismantled, so that each of the several thousand children in the grade schools of Denver could be given a souvenir flower.

Cicero often asked me to perform small services for Milo during that campaign. For example, I went back through our files and prepared lists of our old supporters for him to canvass. I also set up meetings between him and Cicero's clients in the various tribal headquarters. I even took him bags of money that Cicero had raised from wealthy donors.

AGES AGO, WHEN THEY swore me in as a NYPD cop, I wore a uniform I'd bought at Jonas Rathburn & Sons, a cop shop around the corner from the old Centre Street headquarters. Over the years I picked up other gear there—handcuffs, a Kevlar vest, a nightstick to replace the one that disappeared one

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day.

The youthful SEC staffers were so dazzled to be at Madoff headquarters that they occasionally inquired about job openings at the company. "They would say, 'Can we get jobs—can we give you our résumés?'" Solomon said. "We'd say, 'Send them through to our offices.' A couple of them dropped résumés off." The secretary was appalled. "No wonder they never found anything," she said.

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?

Just before Hamilton returned to headquarters, Washington received a letter from Captain Lee announcing Hamilton's death in the Schuylkill. There were tears of jubilation, as well as considerable laughter, when the sodden corpse himself sauntered through the door.

With Standard Oil moving its headquarters to New York, the neighborhood was becoming a colony of company directors.

headquarters said that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably a communist. He had spent years in Russia;

And should you have any doubts or require any advice, do not turn to your wife or any other member of your family, or ask for any help from a spiritual source, but rather come to our headquarters and ask to be directed to room 18. Do you understand what I am saying, Mr. Mettenheimer?

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

Damascus is the center of world terror. All these organizations, Jihad and Hamas, their headquarters are in Damascus. Syria supports Hezbollah.

to the latest mole in district headquarters, who leaked them confidential info about what was coming

The global securities industry, for example, once overwhelmingly concentrated in the financial districts of London and New York, has gradually shifted an ever larger share of their operations to their respective suburban rings, other smaller cities, and overseas. The headquarters might remain in a midtown high-rise, but more and more the jobs are located elsewhere.

blocks north of the Skadden, Arps headquarters in midtown Manhattan are the offices of Joe Flom's great rival, the law firm generally regarded as the finest in the world. It is headquartered in the prestigious office building known as Black Rock. To get hired

His unofficial headquarters was a table at the Stork Club, where he could be seen in conversation with all types of tipsters and newsmakers. He became friends with J. Edgar Hoover and had his car fitted with a police radio, a siren, and a flashing red light. Sometimes he beat the police to holdup scenes.

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.

Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

there were now two FBIs. There was the Field, with its corps of brave, hardworking agents serving in the front line against crime; and there was FBI Headquarters – the Seat of Government, as Edgar liked to call it – with its ever-expanding bureaucracy made up of men who had been office-bound for years.

I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

The signals organization of Browning's tactical headquarters was not complete; many extra men and much signals equipment had to be added during the next few days – much of it from American sources. On landing in Holland, he would be out of touch with two-thirds of his command unless his signals organization worked perfectly