Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Shih

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

I am a better soldier than a student.

I really thought that was it in 2000 when I sold those first two publications. But then before you know it, I was doing more work than before.

I didn't see anything that sold me that a tag had been made.

Stephanie Adams

It was a very successful event. We were completely sold out.

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

They've sold a lot of T-shirts and I know there's a lot of excitement.

Paullina Simons

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

Plutarch

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?

Plutarch

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Mike Gravel

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Jim Ryun

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.

Joan Baez

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Lauren Graham

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Joseph Stiglitz

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

Mike Jackson

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Mike Jackson

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

Patrick MacGill

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Pat Buchanan

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Joe Conason

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Ned Beauman

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Kathryn Bigelow

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

P. J. O'Rourke

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Harry S Truman

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Scott Campbell

At a time when Fords sold for hundreds, Packards went for thousands.