Army Honor Quotes

#1. But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#2. What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

Rachel Kushner

#3. My kind of fun just doesn't include making fun of vertically challanged people

Courtney Allison Moulton

#4. A contained feeling not expressed will end up disappearing one day. It's the same as seeing a dream, it will never become reality.

Shoko Hidaka

#5. Where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#6. Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

William Davenant

#7. Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

Alexander Pope

#8. Small towns begin with a sign. The words can be as simple as the title of a story
Welcome to Harberville, Now entering Clawson
but once you cross, you are inside that story, and all that you do will be part of its tale.

Mitch Albom

#9. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Joseph J. Ellis

#10. I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.

Eileen Myles

#11. I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

Jeff Shaara

#12. Most people live life backwards. They party and kill time in their youth, when they're strong and have the energy to accomplish great things. And then they're older, they try to get things done, but they have less energy and enthusiasm by that time.

Jarod Kintz

#13. I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

Ryan Giggs

#14. What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

William Golding

#15. [General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.

Russell S. Bonds

#16. Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Plato

#17. We respect and honor very deeply those people who decide to serve their country in the military. But we certainly don't denigrate people who choose a different course, particularly when we have an all-volunteer army.

Mitt Romney

#18. I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Kris Kristofferson

#19. We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

Meles Zenawi

#20. When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

George B. McClellan

#21. As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#22. I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise.

Roz Chast

#23. ...officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by the system of rank and distinction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

Aaron Yoo

#25. You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

David Garrick