Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Flynn

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

John Ruskin

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Michael Caine

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

James Cameron

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

James A. Michener

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

Ernie Pyle

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

Chris Wooding

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

George Bernard Shaw

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

I didn't see anything that sold me that a tag had been made.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Carlos Delgado

Let me put it this way. There are no tickets left. It's sold out.

George C. Wallace

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Chris Roberts

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.

Glen Cook

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Herbert Spencer

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Gregory David Roberts

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Guy de Maupassant

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Jim Butcher

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Hu Shih

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

James Callis

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

Harry S Truman

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I am a better soldier than a student.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

David Gemmell

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Andy Kindler

I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.