“And is it all about the pay?” “Hence the term mercenary.” He chucked her under the chin. “Try to keep up, halfling.” — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I am not a mercenary. Milan was my home. They made a good deal, though. They signed me for 10 million euros… — Thiago Silva 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
“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth… — Steven Pressfield 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
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my… — John A. Macdonald 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
New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit… — Francis Quarles 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
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
“You snuck across my yard like a trained mercenary. Dressed in a black getup without so much as a pebble misplaced under… — Jocelyn Adams 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
“If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn’t much out… — Joni Hahn Copy Share Image
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't… — Robbie Fowler Copy Share Image
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“A wanderer left over from the old days, a mercenary with a vague ambition to penetrate the Tower before it was brought… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime! — Xaviera Hollander 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
“Cotter leaned forward. "Where do you get off being such a bossy bitch?" I looked him dead in the eyes. "I was… — Rachel Bach Copy Share Image
You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
“He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn’t even a mercenary have morals? That’s the textbook definition of a whore!” — Nadia Scrieva Copy Share Image
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. — David Gill Copy Share Image
When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in… — Laurell K. Hamilton 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
I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
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