Operations Quotes

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

Art needs an operation

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

I never say of an operation that it is without danger.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else