William Shakespeare Quotes

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

William Shakespeare

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• Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
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• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  

  Calamity Jane
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• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
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• I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  

  Karl Kraus
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• Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Feel
  • Soldier
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• Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Principles

• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Career
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• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Soldier

• I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Army

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Army
  • Soldier

• What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soldier

• During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.

  

  John Delaney
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

  

  Richard Pryor
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• What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

  

  Babe Ruth

• Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.

  

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• I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Littles
  • Soldier
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