Soldier Quotes - Page 34

• Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

  Holly Black

  Angel, Army, March

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

  John Steinbeck

  Hands, Eden, Use

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.25, Penguin

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• 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.

  Chris Wooding

  Firsts, Stage, Bunch

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• In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Pain, War

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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• War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

  David Mitchell

  Country, War, Auctions

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• Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.

  Edward Said

  Struggle, Ideas, Interesting

  Silvia Nagy, Edward W. Said (2006). “Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said”, p.90, Lexington Books

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• Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Army, Battle

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• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knights, Doctors, Encounters

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• When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

  Paullina Simons

  Ice Cream, Saws, Staring

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

  Paullina Simons

  Silence

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

  Guy Sajer

  Falling In Love, War, Age

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.9, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

  Guy Sajer

  War, Depth, Generations

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.119, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Heart

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hunting, Half, Dozen

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

  Dean Hughes

  War, Heart, Evil

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• Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sky, Tree, Gold

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.58, Bantam

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• Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

  Barry Lyga

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Heart, Angel

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• Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Powerful, Blow, Men

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• Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.

  Tana French

  Letting Go, Suicide, Commitment

  "The Likeness". Book by Tana French, 2009.

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• Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort of thinking you might want to do that for me." She shook her head and leaned back on one elbow, giving him her witchiest, bitchiest smile. "Strip." "Now, listen here, Francie--" Lifting a languid hand, she once again pointed toward the center of the room. "Do it real slow, good-looking," she purred. "I want to enjoy every minute.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2005). “Fancy Pants”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Spiritual, Hate, War

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

  Jessica Day George

  Father, Army, Men

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn’t waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn’t been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Goodbye, Mother, Father

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.39, Feiwel & Friends

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• As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack," he said. "Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England." "We're attacking England?" Gideon asked, astonished. "No," Brodick answered. "Though the thought of it warms my heart.

  Julie Garwood

  Heart, Boys, Effort

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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