Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

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

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

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.

Rita Ora

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

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.

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

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

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.

Emily Robison

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

Andy Kindler

I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.

The person who sold the semen made money,

Orson Scott Card

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

We would like to have sold more tickets, but we're going to come out all right.

David Gemmell

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

William Shakespeare

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Carlos Delgado

Let me put it this way. There are no tickets left. It's sold out.

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Douglas MacArthur

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

David Halberstam

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Andrew Young

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Andrei Platonov

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.