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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream. -- Elihu Root
Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges. -- Tamara Ecclestone
The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts. -- Saxby Chambliss
Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. -- Shirin Ebadi
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out. -- Dixie Lee Ray
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts. -- Rick Atkinson
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises. -- Colin Mochrie
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil. -- Armstrong Williams
Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member. -- Bram Fischer
It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true. -- Dixie Lee Ray
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand. -- Tony Judt
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges. -- Barney Ross
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. -- Timothy Noah
It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me. -- Chen Shui-bian
I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two. -- Stephen Lang
No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids. -- Scott Stapp
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. -- Glenn Greenwald
Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.' -- Sean Covey
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. -- Calvin Coolidge
WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. For example, in Europe, if France wants to talk to Belgium, it's extraordinary costly because of border and telecom charges. -- Brian Acton
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner. -- Robert P. McCulloch
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. -- Noam Chomsky
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. -- Noam Chomsky
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges. -- Benazir Bhutto
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne. -- George Herbert
Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery. -- Kenneth E. Hagin
Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges. -- Ralph Goodale
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands. -- C. S. Lewis
George Lopez does so much mugging, I'm surprised he's not up on charges. -- Andy Kindler
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. -- Robert C. Solomon
I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations. -- Bill Belichick
Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges. -- Margaret Thatcher
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. -- Garrison Keillor
It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. -- Christopher Hitchens
I'm convinced I will be cleared of all these charges that were unfairly leveled against me. -- Joseph Estrada
The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges? -- Mira Grant
Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges. -- Christian Finnegan
The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense. -- Edward Snowden
A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.. -- Ashley Purdy
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. -- Susan Sontag
My wife and I keep fighting about sex and money. I think she charges me too much. -- Rodney Dangerfield
President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who. -- Michael R. Burch
Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. You know what that means, stripes are in this year. -- Jay Leno
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made. -- Ovid
I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993. -- Kato Kaelin
The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction. -- Alan Chadwick
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act. -- Raymond Pettibon
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service. -- Barry Ritholtz
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. -- Christopher Hart
Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply. -- Alan Cinis
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. -- Ben Affleck
Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges -- Gerry Adams
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. -- Stephen Leacock
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing -- Stephen Leacock
When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges. -- Jack Handey
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison -- Kim Harrison
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This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you. -- Philip Roth
Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow. -- Joseph Estrada
I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him. -- Emo Philips
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us. -- Billy Graham
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? -- Mahatma Gandhi
reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing. -- Dana Perino
Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves. -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges -- Giovanni Bisignani
The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome. -- Catherine Crier
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill. -- Jay Leno
I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it. -- Tim Conway
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. -- David Shuster
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. -- Jack Schwartz
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. -- Jack Schwartz
The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria. -- John Ashcroft
Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges. -- Alex Berenson
My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father! -- Charles Dickens
A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges. -- Irving Kristol
It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true. -- Christopher Hitchens
I agree and admit that thinking and planning are free. Nobody charges you for thinking and you pay no one to make plans. It's your decision! -- Israelmore Ayivor
We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light. -- Anne Enright
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less -- Nicolas Sarkozy
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters. -- Jack Vance
Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges. -- Jeanne Tripplehorn
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves. -- Tom Peters
Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it. -- Jonathan Raymond
You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react. -- Bernie Ecclestone
To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep. -- Dave Barry
The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name. -- Jesse Jackson
She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness. -- Tess Gerritsen
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives. -- Paul Weyrich
When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me. -- Edward Snowden
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil -- Armstrong Williams
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. -- Walter J. Phillips
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Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it's drug trafficking. For Hugo, it's terrorism. Evo Morales, drug trafficking. Hugo Chavez, terrorism. -- Evo Morales
I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick. -- Cynthia Hand
Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charges are added to the debt every day, and the total amount owed grows over time. -- Charles Duhigg
Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people. -- Dorothy Day
I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the election 2004 campaign. -- Colin Powell
A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment. -- Nick Davies
He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency. -- Benjamin Franklin
The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art. -- LaToya Jackson
The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure. -- Rush Limbaugh
I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. "Who's Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?" "They won't accept the charges," I murmured. -- Richelle Mead
The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure. -- Rush Limbaugh
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges. -- Natalie Kusz
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. -- Toni Cade Bambara
With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead. -- Jonathan Lethem
The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges. -- Candace Bushnell
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves. -- St. Jerome
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest. -- Ovid
One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact. -- Victoria Woodhull
Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place. -- Zebulon Pike
If the fraud charges are proven, fraud order...is issued, a promoter can receive no funds through the mail..., shut off. All mail sent to him is returned to the sender marked 'Fraudulent'. -- J. Edward Day
You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. -- Rumi

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