Soldier Quotes - Page 11

• NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor

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• One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Musician, Should

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

  Tucker Carlson

  War, Feet, Honestly

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

  Tucker Carlson

  War, Sunshine, Feet

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  Agnes Varda

  War, Men, Streets Of Paris

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

  Jason Bateman

  Comforting, Trying, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’". Interview with Kathy A. McDonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

  Tom Johnson

  Military, Army, Cowboy

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I love writing about the military, as I live near an air force base and am inspired by the sacrifices our soldiers make for us. I like to give them a lot of challenges to beat, and show how they live with intrigue and danger.

  Franny Armstrong

  Military, Writing, Sacrifice

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Motivational, Sacrifice, Faithful

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (2007). “Netaji Collected Works”

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• I think it would be a great challenge to work on a military game which featured a female lead character. Since female soldiers are now being allowed on the frontlines, we're actually in danger of reality overtaking games!

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Military, Character, Reality

  Source: www.dualshockers.com

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• Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Gun, Clothes

  Source: www.woodyallen.art.pl

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• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Soup, Stomach

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• The soldier is the army.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

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• Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ideas

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• We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, War, Army

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• The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

  Narendra Modi

  War, Feet, Empowering

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• Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a successful issue the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights as a nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Struggle, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military. Whereas my father had not fought. He was older and he was in a business that was considered essential to the wartime effort - the wire business - and, of course, I was so young I didn't understand any of this.

  Paul Auster

  Father, Military, War

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

  Frederick The Great

  War, Army, Thinking

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• Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.

  Thomas Watson

  Dream, Prayer, Thinking

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Horse, Color, Good Horse

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• What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Leadership, War, Successful

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  John Webster

  Wine, Vineyards, Woods

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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