There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
A computer can process information and engage a weapon infinitely faster than a human soldier. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
“Even the most absent minded Soldier will develope a memory like a elephant when mistreated.” — Donavan Nelson Butler Copy Share Image
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for… — Philemon Copy Share Image
A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“There’s no soldier don’t have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that’s just a fact.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
“-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.”… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I think, though, that another shame of war is that when it’s over, a soldier don’t get to leave it behind where… — Sandra Kring Copy Share Image
“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Frank didn’t drop you on purpose,” she said. “He’s not like that. He’s just a little clumsy sometimes.” “Oops,” Leo said, in… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.'… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What's less well known is that the CIA's executive management staff is far more concerned with selecting the right candidates to serve… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or… — John Rae Copy Share Image
I've never actually been exposed to the hardships that proper soldiers endure. I also think you need a particular constitution to be… — Tom Glynn-Carney Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day! — Nathan East Copy Share Image
I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,… Professional soldiers study logistics. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Welcome to the soldier side. Where there is no one here but me. People all grow up to die. There is no… — System Of A Down Copy Share Image
“You can take the soldier out of the army, but you will NEVER take the army out of the soldier” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
This is no time for wimpy Christians. It's time for soldiers of Christ to arise! — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain. — Fidelis of Sigmaringen Copy Share Image
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy in front of him, he fights because he loves what he left behind. — Mario Tomasello Copy Share Image
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image