To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
But as much as this is a soldier's reason d'etre, it is not often that you hear a soldier explicitly talk about 'killing'. The k-word as a verb is instead often disguised and supplanted by any number of other euphemisms. In precise and technical mili...
The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance...and we've turned in into a march of ...
A hard soldier is a strong soldier is a living soldier.
Lt. Gen. George Miller: My loyalty is to the kids. I am a soldier. Karen Clarke: You're not a soldier. Lt. Gen. George Miller: I've been a soldier my whole life! What do you mean I'm not a soldier? I'm a soldier! Look at the uniform - what, do you th...
Union Captain at the Bridge: Whoever has the most liquor to get the soldiers drunk and send them to be slaughtered... he's the winner.
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It i...
The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.
[the 54th has just been attached to Col. Montgomery's regiment in the hope of seeing combat. The troops are marching through the regiment's camp] Cpl. Thomas Searles: Who are these ragamuffins? John Rawlins: Contraband soldiers, straight from the fie...
He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
For what it’s worth”—he rose from his seat, moved around the table and bent over her, whispering in her ear as he pressed a kiss to her cheek— “I like you better in a pair of worn jeans, and I think you deserve someone who appreciates what ...
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
The best soldiers are not warlike.
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
