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Quotes About Carriers

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.
~ Niki Lauda
Wireless carriers certainly don't need the federal government's help.
~ Ajit Pai
WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware.
~ Peter Diamandis
Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.
~ Sam Altman
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
~ Barney Ross
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
In fact they were looking for weapons eager to find something they could justify the millions of dollars and massive deployment of personnel, the collection of stun-guns, tear-gas guns, pepper-spray guns, M16's, horses, clubs, and armored personnel carriers with which they intended to protect the city from our hordes of puppet carriers and potentially illegal gardeners
~ Starhawk
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
~ Gene Cernan
We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.
~ P. W. Singer
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
~ Stephen Gardiner
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
~ Robert Toombs
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Early on, Android phones were pitched as kind of ersatz iPhones, devices that could do most of what an iPhone did - but were available on carriers other than AT&T, a relatively horrible network that was the biggest source of complaints about Apple's transformative device.
~ Daniel Lyons
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
Just because we are carriers doesn't mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it's every man for himself... then all is lost. We've become the monsters they say we are.
~ Sophie Jordan
Exactly what he wanted me to do. Exactly what they all thought I would do. Everyone in here. Everyone out there in the world. A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.
~ Sophie Jordan
And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers? - They're always watched - But not locked in? The honor is specific to me? - You did try to brain me.
~ Sophie Jordan
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
~ Jack Adams
International carriers need to be given greater role in our skies on all routes like several other large countries to make our aviation industry more efficient and competitive and prevent arbitrary pricing by monopolies.
~ Naveen Patnaik
Christians are the carriers of truth that the whole world needs
~ Sunday Adelaja
Across media platforms, "Typhoid Mary" is still casually applied to contemporary menaces of public health, ignoring the ethically dubious practice of blaming healthy carriers and Mary Mallon's persecution as a poor immigrant at the turn of the 20th century.
~ Katherine Foss
Waldron took care to convey confidence, to assure his men that they were the best torpedo squadron in the fleet, and even to guarantee that the squadron would score hits on the Japanese carriers in the coming battle.
~ Ian W. Toll
Possessing foreknowledge of Japanese intentions, Nimitz had been dealt a very strong hand. It is also true that he played that hand skillfully, indeed flawlessly. In arranging his forces, Nimitz had concentrated on one overriding objective to the exclusion of all others: to ambush and destroy the Japanese carriers. Whereas Yamamoto's plan was vast and fatally complex, Nimitz's was straightforward, and aimed at the enemy's most vulnerable point.
~ Ian W. Toll
All that I can claim credit for, myself, is a very keen sense of the urgent need for surprise and a strong desire to hit the enemy carriers with our full strength as early as we could reach them.
~ Ian W. Toll