Quotes of: Armies Keyword

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

Amy Chua

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Antonio Tabucchi

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Robert Musil

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

Rupert Everett

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Lloyd Alexander

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

Rick Atkinson

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Tony Greig

Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army? Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant! Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a...

Forrest Gump

Cassius: On this day, we reach back to hallowed antiquity, to bring you a recreation of the second fall of the mighty Carthage!... On the barren plain of Zama, there stood the invincible armies of the barbarian Hannibal. Ferocious mercenaires and war...

Gladiator

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

Flygirl

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

The Art of War

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Brother Odd

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Bulent Ecevit

The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.

Richard Armitage

Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

Afterlife

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Jacob's Room

The army don’t teach enlisted men how to fly,” I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. “We gotta do that for ourselves.

Racing for the Sun

Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.

Same Kind of Different as Me