Top 1200 Real Soldiers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedfom and security are yours.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

It's a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

When I won I always was part of a real team with real men and a real coach.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

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

I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

You have to give the soldiers, the Army, a clear vision.

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Even the soldiers need a break sometimes.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Real men know how to move as real men. Real men won't allow themselves to be disrespected. Real men aren't punks.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

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