Army Quotes
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In contrast to Noam, traumatized people become stuck, stopped in their growth because they can’t integrate new experiences into their lives. I was very moved when the veterans of Patton’s army gave me a World War II army-issue watch for Christmas, but it was a sad memento of the year their lives had effectively stopped: 1944. Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.
Bessel van der Kolk
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So you can see here in this case of mine where God helped me out. I had been living for God and working in the church some time before I come to the army. So I am a witness to the fact that God did help me out of that hard battle; for the bushes were shot up all around me and I never got a scratch.
Alvin C. York
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
Janine di Giovanni
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When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world.
Anushka Sharma
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Our Army is filled with women and men who care and who are in a position to change and improve the conditions under which we serve
Claudia Kennedy
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Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.
Bonaventure
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My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
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The unyielding army will not win.
Lao Tzu
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What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do.
Simon Sinek
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Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
Antony Beevor
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I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.
John Tiffany
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All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.
William James
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Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.
George Washington
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I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.
Ken Livingstone
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.
Ahmed Zewail
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I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.
Adrian McKinty
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A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
Edward Charles Ford
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The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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I'm a patriot... Like my late father who came here and served his country as a member of the U.S. Army.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
Asma Jahangir