Soldier Quotes
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It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
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The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
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The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
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Clavain had been a soldier. He had killed more people than he could remember, even though those days had been a long time ago. It was really a lot less difficult to do when you had a cause to believe in.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
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A soldier's death, he thought, was a happy one, because a man, even in the throes of awful pain, would die in the best company of the world.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.
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Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
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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.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
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The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".
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You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
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General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.
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I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
