Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?

Gregory David Roberts

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

I am a better soldier than a student.

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

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.

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.

Joan Baez

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

Jan Schakowsky

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Paullina Simons

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

Swami Vivekananda

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Tilda Swinton

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

Tom Clancy

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Larry Craig

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

Tertullian

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Terry Pratchett

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

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.