Soldier Quotes - Page 14

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

I have found over the years that American soldiers and airmen thrive on competition.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar: Once more your Captain calls to you; Come to his last review!

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.