#soldier

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#afternoon #between #breakfast #clock #earlier

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#allah #around #avengers #before #bush

I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#advised #agent #ago #became #been

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#heroes #outnumber #soldiers #ten #war

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life. ↗

— John Olver

#america #battle #before #disabled #emotional

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#almost #east #fighting #history #i

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#else #good #got #i #must

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#details #his #seaman #sheep #shepherd

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#because #been #done #everybody #feel

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#heightened #his #knowledge #profession #soldier