Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal.… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
“Halloo down there,” the voice said. Ziba saw a burly soldier in armor standing at the edge of the cliff. “Are you… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably, the intelligent, educated man makes, in the long run, the best soldier. There is no place for the mere brute in… — Albertus Wright Catlin Copy Share Image
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by… — Ernst Kaltenbrunner Copy Share Image
From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
“A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we're no longer in the military. All this 'once a soldier, always a soldier',… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse!… — Chantal Sutherland Copy Share Image
I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I think deconfliction with the Russians is probably the maximum that we can do. But deconfliction is enough to prevent us killing… — Kori Schake Copy Share Image
“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range… — Peter Steinhart Copy Share Image
And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife...at the end of it you know you'll end up with a… — D.E.M. Emrys Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image
Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image