The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it. '
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.
BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.
The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge. ' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough. ' ~MilesPudge and Chipthe Colonel, pg 168
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.
The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?
