Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Bernard Law Montgomery

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

Bobby Ray Inman

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Brian Shaw

We've sold out every year we've been here.

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done."

Edwin Arnold

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

Edward Young

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.