Top 1200 Wounded Soldier Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.
What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.
If you put on the military uniform, you're a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They're the ones who have been most successful at the soldier's trade.
We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact.
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.
He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.
When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.
Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
Not everything that nearly kills you makes you stronger. Sometimes it just makes you hate yourself for being so easily wounded yet unable to die.
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
