Quote by José Saramago

“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“They shot one of ours.” The lines deepened around his grey eyes. “I’d waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crew’s…

— Katherine McIntyre

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”

— Denis Johnson

“He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers…

— Joe Abercrombie

“And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.”

— John Green

“He is the true soldier who knows how to die and stand his ground in the midst of a hail of bullets.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“is a pretty well established fact that many a brutal officer fell in battle, from being shot other than by the enemy. Shortly”

— Matilda Pierce Alleman

“The colonel still stared at my friend like a man in a trance. "You cunning, cunning fiend!" was all that he could say.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There's likely to be a battle, a war, The blind are always at war, always have been at war.”

— Saramago

“to any soldier, what he does is tactical and what his next senior does is strategic.”

— J.C. Wylie

“And as he recalls the old soldier's wisdom regarding bullets and fate, how pointless evasion is when each shot has a man's name on…

— Emma Richler

“The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five…

— Ernest Hemingway