Quotes About General

America. Connecticut. Tell the general here that I'm with the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, and that I represent Allen Dulles.

Towards the end of Bhindranwale's time reports based on briefings from Indian intelligence sources started appearing in the press about a double agent called the 'Falcon' who used to cross the border into Pakistan. He was said to be liaising with a Pakistani general and then reporting back to the Indian intelligence agency RAW (Research and Analysis Wing).

By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'

Soon your ashes fly to the veterans' cemetery at Arlington, where once a Confederate general would have counted you among his mules and pigs. This poet's coat is your last poem. I want to write a poem like this coat, with buttons and pockets and green cloth, a poem useful as a coat to a coughing man.

After the reforms, US immigration to Texas did not stop, and by 1835 the Anglo-American population had grown to over 30,000.40 The enslaved population increased from 2,000 when General Mier y Terán issued his report to 5,000 in 1836.41

It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.

As a result, from 1945 on general works which tried to come to grips with the nature of war very often devoted a separate chapter to guerrilla warfare. They almost treated it as if it stood in no relation to anything else.

Shortly before midnight General de Castries' situation report to FTNV stressed the lack of reserves, the terrible fatigue of all his units, and his absolute need for a complete and solid battalion to be parachuted on the following night if GONO was to survive. By dawn the night would have cost him 331 men killed and missing and 168 wounded – the equivalent of a battalion.

Aemilius Paullus may have had this in mind when he remarked: 'A man who knows how to conquer in battle also knows how to give a banquet and organise games.' He is usually taken to have been referring to the connection between military victory and spectacle; but he may have also been hinting that the talents of a successful general did not go far beyond basic organisational expertise.

The Komizar rages with enough venom to make your general look like a whimpering kitten.

Paris had for years been a center for those alienated from and opposed to the Church, as well as being opposed to organized religion in general.

On the grave-mound of Leonidas, with its marble lion, he laid a garland. "I don't think," he remarked after, "that he was really much of a general. If he'd made sure the Phokian troops understood their orders, the Persians could never have turned the pass. These southern states never work together. But one must honor a man as brave as that.

William Slim, a shrewd, rugged Gurkha officer who would eventually show himself to be Britain's ablest general of the

We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence. Machine stupidity creates a tail risk. Machines can make many many good decisions and then one day fail spectacularly on a tail event that did not appear in their training data. This is the difference between specific and general intelligence.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

A deep commitment to general education is impossible in a context in which faculty and students prize above all their ability to teach and study what they want.

On February 14, William P. Barr was sworn in as attorney general.

He had little doubt that Trump was guilty of most of what he was accused of. "How did he get the dough for the primary and then for the general with his 'liquidity' issues?" asked Bannon with his hands out and his eyebrows up. "Let's not dwell.

An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime

the Spaniards don't like cultural programmes at all, nor culture in general, it's an area that is fundamentally hostile to them, one occasionally has the impression when talking about culture to them that they are sort of personally insulted.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

Veinticuatro horas antes, esta basura humana ahora agonizante era el alma de un hogar donde por toda política el canario urdía sus intrigas de alpiste, el chorro en la pila, sus círculos concéntricos, el general, sus interminables solitarios, y Camila, sus caprichos.