“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A Soldier Fights Not Because He Hates The One In Front Of Him.. But Because He Loves The People Behind Him. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot. — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
A computer can process information and engage a weapon infinitely faster than a human soldier. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Copy Share Image
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there.… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost… — Raghad Hussein Copy Share Image
“Even the most absent minded Soldier will develope a memory like a elephant when mistreated.” — Donavan Nelson Butler Copy Share Image
“It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart… — Jennifer Faye Copy Share Image
I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“There’s no soldier don’t have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that’s just a fact.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for… — Philemon Copy Share Image
Welcome to the soldier side. Where there is no one here but me. People all grow up to die. There is no… — System Of A Down Copy Share Image
“You can take the soldier out of the army, but you will NEVER take the army out of the soldier” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day! — Nathan East Copy Share Image
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,… Professional soldiers study logistics. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image