Soldier Quotes · Page 34

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

— Erwin Rommel

“Excuse me soldiers, but do you mind stepping away from your lady friends?" We were here for the prostitutes. "And why should…

— Khalia Hades

“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”

— Steven Ramirez

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

— James Cameron

I'm a soldier of love. Every day and night I'm soldier of love. All the days of my life.

— Sade

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

— Sun Tzu

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

“It was not that he lacked discipline, or the support of the men; the problem was that Espinosa, a soldier, was simply…

— Laurence Bergreen

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is…

— William Faulkner

The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s,…

— George Carlin

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability…

— Marlon Brando

I might not like the fact that you are my commander, Greek, but as a soldier I will obey you regardless of…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical…

— Melissa Bean

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do…

— Jessica Lynch

In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and…

— Tim O'Brien

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being…

— Karl Kraus

My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges…

— Joe Queenan

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the…

— Jessica Stern

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in…

— Criss Jami

King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that…

— Diodorus Siculus

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

— Neil Young

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last…

— George S. Patton

It takes a strong person to be a soldier. It takes a stronger person to love a soldier. Support our troops.

— Sarah Moores

Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

— David Mitchell

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.

— Linda Howard

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

— Iris Chang

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.

— John Hurt

“A good soldier ponders the Word of God; he mulls it over, chews on it, and eats it so that he will…

— Jared C. Wilson

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk…

— Cormac McCarthy

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

— Bill Maher

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a…

— Otto von Bismarck

A Soldier Fights Not Because He Hates The One In Front Of Him.. But Because He Loves The People Behind Him.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward…

— Bernard Cornwell

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

— Hideki Tojo