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
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
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer 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
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
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
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
I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
“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
“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
“I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher 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
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined… — Strabo 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
“A second later, Jacques was at Burn's side, shaking the mercenary's hand as if he were the King himself. “Nice, Wolfy, well… — T.L. Shreffler Copy Share Image
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“You wish this to end," the mercenary remarked to Dinin when they were alone. "You have not met my brother," Dinin replied… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Hi. I'm here to enlist. You can't. You aren't human. You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces."… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“So you're a fellow mercenary, then." "Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?" "Don't ask for that. All it means… — Howard Tayler 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
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
“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
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
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
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
Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me;… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
I'm an American working for America. Anything we do is to support U.S. policy. You know the definition of a mercenary is… — Erik Prince 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
My character is called The Hunter. He's the main antagonist in the movie. In a nutshell, he's a slightly deranged natural born… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
“Chase stared into the fire. That look, those eyes would haunt the mercenary for a while…occasionally, now and then, there was a… — Cade Mengler Copy Share Image
What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image