Double Bladed Staff Quotes

Crete was heavily fortified, but Nicephorus brushed aside the waiting Arab army by sending in his marines - terrifying Norse warriors whose terrible double-bladed axes could smash through armor and bone alike. ~ Lars Brownworth

Shagga, cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats." Shagga hefted the huge double-bladed axe. "There are no goats, Halfman." "Make do. ~ George R R Martin

He's a little grumpy," Asclepius said. "People are always confusing my staff with the staff of Hermes, which has two snakes, obviously. Over the centuries, people have called Hermes's staff the symbol of medicine, when of course it should be my staff. Spike feels slighted. George and Martha get all the attention. Anyway ... ~ Rick Riordan

I wasn't invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn't want any women on staff at the time ~ Mimi Pond

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on. ~ Sydney Schanberg

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow ~ Richard Branson

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly. ~ Lloyd Alexander

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ~ Shirley Temple

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide. ~ Rumi

He slides into second with a stand up double. ~ Jerry Coleman

The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done! ~ David Berg

A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

Staff will need to receive adequate training from IT staff on ways to effectively use databases. Beyond the ability to navigate a database system, staff will need additional skills such as developing queries or using spreadsheets to analyze and present data. In other words, rather than simply concentrating on the business functions that technology supports, student affairs staff should integrate assessment functions into their understanding of technology tools. ~ John H. Schuh

The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team. ~ Johnny Majors

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff. ~ Edward Abbey

double mindedness; the mid way between dreams and realities ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have to constantly tell my personnel staff, 'Hey guys, we're still a good staff even though we're allowing good players to go play for other people,' ~ Ozzie Newsome

Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network. ~ Craig Kilborn

That is one boss, bold, bladed motherfucker. ~ Tina Fey

A president is always cosseted by his staff. ~ Monica Crowley

Family is a two-bladed sword. It must be maneuvered expertly to avoid injury. ~ L. Penelope

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff. ~ John Barton

MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it. ~ Michael O'Leary

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff. ~ Philip Kaufman

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things. ~ Evan Davis

Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart. ~ Chris Galford

Holy guacamole. Was that a double entendre? I swear that was a double entendre. Someone hold my panties on for me because Mason Lowe was freaking flirting with me, using double entendres. ~ Linda Kage

Plain as a pike-staff. ~ Alain-Rene Lesage

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again? ~ Jeff Henderson

For tasty food, double the money. To be full, double the amount. So what do you do to double the pleasure of a meal? You add a companion to dine with. ~ Isuna Hasekura

All of the men on my staff can type. ~ Bella Abzug

Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision. ~ Theo Paphitis

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. ~ Robin Hobb

Still the hottest angel I know," he murmured.
"It's beyond me how you're still on staff. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

I considered all these people, current and former staff, to be family. And I was so proud of what we'd done. ~ Michelle Obama

The cold cut like a many bladed knife ~ Israel Zangwill

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall. ~ Gustave Eiffel

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities. ~ Ferguson Jenkins

A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos. ~ Tim Page

I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches. ~ Jim Leyland

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. ~ James Brown

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. ~ Estelle Parsons

I learned from everybody whose staff I was on. You always learn something. ~ Sid Gillman

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy. ~ Nelly

We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff. ~ Robert Townsend

From the fissure of their ever-present double consciousness sprang the idea of the double victory, articulated by James Thompson in his letter to the Pittsburgh Courier: "Let colored Americans adopt the double VV for a double victory; the first V for victory over our enemies from without, the second V for victory over our enemies within. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly

The station put us on staff at $35 a week ... and I mean every week. ~ Roy Rogers

Old soldier's trick, sir. Sleep when you can." "You're not sleeping, Staff." "Staff sergeants never sleep, sir." "Ever vigilant?" "You've been reading the brochure. ~ Tanya Huff

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. ~ Robin McKinley

The flag atop the Main Street flagpole is flown at half-staff only when Walt Disney passed away, a U.S. President dies in office, or the pulley gets stuck. ~ Horatio Liar

Retain the Knowledge; Return the Book ~ Culver-Stockton Library Staff

Dogs have owners, cats have staff. ~ Margaret Benson

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight. ~ Leo Gordon

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive. ~ Francis Crick

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. ~ Jurgen Klinsmann

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. ~ Prince Andrew

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings. ~ Allen Weinstein

I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations. ~ Brendan Rodgers

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment ... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place. ~ Joel Salatin

I think I've got the best staff in television. ~ Phil McGraw

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better. ~ Walt Disney

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years. ~ Ryne Sandberg

when you're the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they've let you go. ~ New York Times Staff

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced. ~ Kevin Mitnick

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. ~ Nigella Lawson

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double. ~ Francis Quarles

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well. ~ Joe Murray

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards. ~ LIZ

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at ... " ~ Susan Ward

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. ~ Lee Konitz

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! ~ William Shakespeare

I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best. ~ Charles Wang

each day 14 children under the age of 19 are killed by guns ~ National Center For Health Statistics (U.S.) Staff

The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having. ~ Dov Davidoff

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do. ~ Brendan Rodgers

What could you do if you valued yourself more?

Whatever you think your worth in life and business, double it. Then double it again. ~ Richie Norton

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. ~ Lois Capps

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. ~ Keith Green

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus. ~ New York Times Staff

I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky to have many staff members who I look up to, and who are overflowing with talent, that work with me on each project. ~ Mamoru Hosoda

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring. ~ Rob Portman

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon. ~ Thomas Hood

Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain. ~ Joan Walsh Anglund

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to. ~ Brian Posehn

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. ~ Matthew Henry

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. ~ Jeff Bezos

Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality. ~ Bayard Rustin

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army. ~ Kevin Rollins

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was. ~ Smokey Robinson

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them. ~ Marilyn Johnson

My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething. ~ Doug Liman

I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that. ~ Leos Carax

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. ~ Carol Burnett

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass. ~ Alvin Lee

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. ~ Douglas Coupland

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. ~ William Petty