A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it. — Michael Avenatti Copy Share Image
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“We either need an overwhelming force advantage, or we need more information." "Reinforcements cut into our bounty, remember?" "It's unanimous. We need… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough. — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“Why are you considering working permanently as a mercenary if you have a few hundred to spend on me upfront? You can’t… — Rosie Scott Copy Share Image
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The first rule of being a mercenary? Find out what the client wants, then convince him that, a) you can get it… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent, and neurotic. Sex scares… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings… — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“The third mercenary—standing between Yrene and the mist—drew his short sword. Yrene didn’t have time to cry out in surprise or warning… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“What was it with evildoers trying to hire my boyfriend as a mercenary?” — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun. — Evan Wright Copy Share Image
“Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.” — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around… — Sebastian Roche Copy Share Image
“It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.” — Nadia Scrieva Copy Share Image
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
