Quotes of: Good-soldier Keyword

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

Lysander Spooner

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Clara Barton

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

Janis Karpinski

Japanese Soldier: We know you're there, Yankee! Sergeant Keck: Tojo eats shit! Japanese Soldier: No, Roosevelt eats shit!

The Thin Red Line

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Walter Dean Myers

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Dead Beat

The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling...

Street Haunting

Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

Tom Stoppard

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences -...

Wesley Morris

Lucilla: Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him. Gracchus: Who will help me carry him? [Gladiators surround Maximus to carry him out of the arena]

Gladiator

Japanese Soldier: Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?

The Thin Red Line

Tony Stark: [Entering a room full of Hydra soldiers] Guys, lets talk about this... [Shoots all the Hydra men non-fatally with tiny guided missiles] Tony Stark: Good talk. Background voice: No, it wasn't!

Avengers: Age of Ultron

... Left weaponless, Roran was forced to retreat before the remaining soldier. He stumbled over a corpse, cutting his calf on a sword as he fell, and rolled to avoid a two-handed blow from the soldier, scrabbling frantically in the ankle-deep mud for...

Eldest

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and ...

Gerald Griffin

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept

Small changes among the masses, can have a massive impact across the world.

Service: A Soldier's Journey: Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Violence of Urban Education

...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them.

The Soldier's Dark Secret

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy