Soldier Quotes - Page 40

• I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

  Ned Beauman

  Good Soldiers

  "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

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• I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

  Dave Brubeck

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Kids

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• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  Peter Berg

  Football, Character, Hockey

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• Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Fighting, Class

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• Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

  Duane Chapman

  Jesus, Angel, Son

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Intelligent, Should Have, Justice

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• I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, Writing, Opportunity

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Iraq, Matter

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• I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

  Jeff Daniels

  Couple, Kids, Legs

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• Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

  Mark Dayton

  Real, Challenges, Life Is

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• That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

  Nick Flynn

  Surprise, Wartime, Should

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• It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

  Robert Fisk

  Eerie, Als, Bashar Al Assad

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• I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

  Tommy Franks

  Taken, Care, Remember

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• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Artist, Essence, Influence And Power

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• The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

  Mike Gravel

  Dying, Vietnam, Vain

  Mike Gravel's speech at the 2008 Democratic primary Presidential debate in Orangeburg, South Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Dad, Military

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
  We're finally on our own
  This summer I hear the drumming
  Four dead in Ohio
  Gotta get down to it
  Soldiers are gunning us down
  Should have been done long ago
  What if you knew her and
  Found her dead on the ground
  How can you run when you know

  Neil Young

  Summer, Running, Should Have

  "Ohio" (song) (1970)

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

  Marlon Brando

  Military, Gun, Men

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• Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

  James Taylor

  Home, Night, Twenties

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• See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Wise, Gun, Fire

  Song: Don Quixote, 1975

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• I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'

  Ross Kemp

  Daughter, Drinking, Bad Relationship

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• I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Iraq, Deployment, Hawaii

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• Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

  Mike Jackson

  "Disabled soldier's pay-out victory" by Ned Temko, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2007.

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