Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Steve Cohen

And 'Jack & Bobby' started two years ago, ... those 'Future President' T-shirts you see sold in airports for kids.

All trailers will be removed from the property. It is going to be annexed in and then sold off to a developer.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Swami Vivekananda

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Tilda Swinton

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

Tertullian

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Terry Pratchett

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Larry Craig

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Joseph Bruchac

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Jacque Fresco

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

Laini Taylor

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Max Hastings

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

Plutarch

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?

Plutarch

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Mike Gravel

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Paullina Simons

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

John McCain

...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Lauren Graham

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Joseph Stiglitz

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

Loretta Lynn

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Mahatma Gandhi

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Jim Ryun

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

Joan Baez

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

Randy Travis

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Thomas Jefferson

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

Samuel Johnson

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.