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Letter "O" » operations
«The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from [pool coverage of] military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.»
Author: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
amendment, ban, banned, coverage, Defense Department, department, First Amendment, military operation, operations, pool, Reporters
«The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.»
Author: James Knox Polk
(President)
| About:
Government,
Politicians
| Keywords:
disreputable, embarrasses, not absolutely, offices, operations, The Passion, votes
«Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.»
«I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature»
«There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance»
Author: Thomas Pynchon
| Keywords:
operations
«Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
army, essential, in operation, move, operations, relies, relying
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
detection, disturb, dread, fallacies, operations, quickened, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, vigorous
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
operations, quickened, vigorous
«The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he disputes the mastery of the emp»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
captures, capturing, cities, disputes, disputing, field, fighting, forces, force field, intact, in dispute, in operation, kingdom, laying, lengthy, masteries, mastery, operations, overthrowing, overthrows, siege, sieges, skillful, subdues, The Enemy, The Field, The Siege, troops
«Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
agent, agents, army, be intimate, close to, commander, commanders, confidential, intimate, intimates, intimate with, intimating, in operation, liberal, operations, relating, rewards, secret agent, secret agents, The Agent
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