“I'm going to imagine that converstion now. 'Hi, Mom, it's me. I ran away to Paris with a stranger I met under… — Rosanne Parry Copy Share Image
Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That,… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it,… — William G. Bainbridge Copy Share Image
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers]. — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers… — Nina Berman Copy Share Image
I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image