Soldier Quotes
The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.
According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.
The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.
The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.
By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.
