Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Samuel Johnson

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Wilhelm Keitel

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Glen Cook

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Herbert Spencer

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

James Cameron

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

James A. Michener

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

Ernie Pyle

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

Gregory David Roberts

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Guy de Maupassant

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

George Bernard Shaw

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Chris Wooding

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Brian Rolston

I'm just like, 'Exhibition game. Sold out?' ... It's unbelievable. It's a unique thing here in Minnesota. There's no question.

Stephanie Adams

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

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Jim Butcher

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Harry S Truman

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I am a better soldier than a student.

Hu Shih

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

James Callis

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

Jan Schakowsky

all of our soldiers still don't have up-armored Humvees.

Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Henry Fielding

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Michael Caine

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.