Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Driscoll

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

John McCain

...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.

Sergei Ivanov

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

Siegfried Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Geoff Hoon

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

Garrison Keillor

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

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.

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.

Loretta Lynn

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Mahatma Gandhi

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Louis Pasteur

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

Meg Rosoff

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

Susan Hayward

I'm not going to say I'm sold on a five-day fair, and I'm not sure we can do it.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

George C. Wallace

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Chris Roberts

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

John Ruskin

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Tertullian

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.