Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Spencer

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

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?

Ernie Pyle

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

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.

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.

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.

Gregory David Roberts

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

I am a better soldier than a student.

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Nick Flynn

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

Sergei Ivanov

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

Siegfried Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Sebastian Junger

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

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.

Mark Driscoll

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Sitting Bull

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Joe Conason

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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.

Sun Tzu

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...