Mercenary Quotes

43 Mercenary quotes by 38 unique authors

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate… — David Johansen
A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun. — Evan Wright
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these… — Curtis Sittenfeld
The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough. — Jonathan Stroud
You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got ‘tude. (Dev) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can… — Amitav Ghosh
So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker… — Laurell K. Hamilton
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not… — C.S. Lewis
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
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not… — William Wilberforce
As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah,… — Cinda Williams Chima
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place… — Simon Schama
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out… — Tommy Shaw

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