Army Quotes
1821 Army quotes by 1119 unique authors
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at…
— Charles Bukowski
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
— George S. Patton
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The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
— Pat Conroy
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones,…
— Stephen Colbert
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
— Cormac McCarthy
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What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think…
— G.A. Henty
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Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a…
— China Mieville
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much…
— Robert B. Parker
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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
— Victor Hugo
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What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
— John Gresham Machen
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's…
— Banksy
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There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
— Haruki Murakami
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For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman…
— Camille Paglia
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
— Orson Welles
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill…
— Colin Powell
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. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles…
— Christopher Moore
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An army of the people is invincible!
— Mao Zedong
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All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let…
— George S. Patton
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Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen
— George S. Patton
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