Top 69 Corporal's Quotes
#1. Fiddler turned in his seat and met his corporal's dark eyes. Trouble? Maybe. The exchange was silent, a product of years fighting side by side. Crokus
Steven Erikson
#2. I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.
Jack Kirby
#3. In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I
Philip Kerr
#4. If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
Jeph Jacques
#5. Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke
#6. CORPORAL BURKE GRINNED, no humor in his expression but plenty of satisfaction as he jammed the throttle of the M7 Abrams main battle tank, flattening the tiny import in front of him to a mashed pulp as he rumbled over it.
Evan Currie
#7. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
Christopher Moore
#8. I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs, and Michael Biehn replaced me.
James Remar
#9. Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#10. We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.
Greg Rucka
#11. Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand.
Joseph Heller
#12. Political persuasion emerges at the intersection of the mental and the corporal. Traveling
David Eagleman
#13. You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life ... and of death.
Henry V. O'Neil
#14. Corporal Clasp crawled up beside him. 'That's one of those Fuckeral's, isn't it?
Steven Erikson
#15. Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? - Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.
Robert A. Heinlein
#16. One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#17. General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General,
Captain Fatigue, and at the base of all
pale Corporal Fatigue,
and curious microbes came, came viruses:
and the Court conferred on Henry, and conferred on Henry
the rare Order of Weak.
John Berryman
#18. If only you would quit squirming.. I'm gonna make ground meat out of you ... And I can't do it properly if you don't stay put.
- Lance Corporal Levi (talking to a titan)
Hajime Isayama
#19. Into the air, and what seemed corporal Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.
Anonymous
#20. Then there's the way you krazak your G'ardrgh," said Corporal Littlebottom. "I won't even ask," said Vimes. "I'm afraid I can't explain in any case," said Cheery.
Terry Pratchett
#21. By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
Saint Augustine
#22. You can't turn something into something else," said Corporal Nobbs. "The Alchemists have been trying it for years." "They a can gen'rally turn a house into a hole in the ground," said Sergeant Colon.
Terry Pratchett
#23. I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.
Ryan Reynolds
#24. Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Ellen Key
#25. I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.
Sonia Sotomayor
#26. But this controversy did not involve the corporal who refused to give thought to what his life had become as a case. God did not think of a man as a case. For a case is to be solved - and a man cannot be solved.
Joyce Carol Oates
#27. Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
William E. Simon
#28. We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#29. Gilda: How severe is the corporal punishment here?
Mrs. McCracken: Honey, nobody's going to spank you here. Don't worry.
Jennifer Allison
#30. Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
John Of The Cross
#31. And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
William Shakespeare
#32. He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
Ardant Du Picq
#33. She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being was overwhelmed by her... by her mentality, really. For of course the physical resemblance of the lance-corporal was mere subterfuge. Lance-corporals do not resemble young ladies.
Ford Madox Ford
#34. I'm in battle mode. Shut down. Hard. I'm not Hunter anymore. I'm Lance Corporal Lee, USMC. Semper Fi, bitches.
Jasinda Wilder
#35. A property is that which not at all
Can be disjoined and severed from a thing
Without a fatal dissolution: such,
Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow
To the wide waters, touch to corporal things,
Intangibility to the viewless void.
Lucretius
#36. People ought to think for themselves ... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. (Corporal Carrot)
Terry Pratchett
#37. We're dying of boredom, Corporal, that's the problem.' [Blend]
'If boredom was fatal there wouldn't be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.' [Picker]
Stephen Erickson
#38. The rules were just different back then, especially in regard to corporal punishment. Not only could you hit your own children, but you could also hit other people's.
David Sedaris
#39. The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.
Terry Pratchett
#40. How long y' think it'll take t'git that wild streak out im?"
"Well, Brother Tiggins, that'll depend on how long he can weather the leather.
Mars Hill
#41. I want to take one last journey together, just the three of us, and go back to Easterbury ... and let the Corporal relax and rest in peace. I'll be with you, Kieli, I'll still be with you ... Won't that do ... ?
Yukako Kabei
#43. We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed
#44. I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
Fanny Kemble
#45. Corporal, afterwards Lieutenant, Christie, of the P.P.C.L.I., was one of the individual pioneers of sniping.
Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard
#46. With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
Robert Orben
#47. Thereafter mighty forces were adrift, the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast - Corporal Hitler.
Winston S. Churchill
#48. Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
Boethius
#49. I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
Thornton Wilder
#50. I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
#51. I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth
the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.
Martin Luther
#52. A corporal, who had lost an eye after two years on the Russian front, ascertained before we marched that his wife, his two children, and both of his parents had been killed. He had one cigarette. He shared it with me.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#54. Somebody's got to win this war, right?
Greg Rucka
#55. WILL ALIGNMENT
Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#56. The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was; to Captain Black it was as simple as that, and he had Corporal Kolodny sign hundreds with his name each day so that he could always prove he was more loyal than anyone else.
Joseph Heller
#57. And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell;
John Milton
#58. PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)
Martin Amis
#60. When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works.
And the hundredth boy?
We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.
Mary Doria Russell
#61. [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy ...
Vincent De Paul
#62. There's no corporal punishment here, or any other form of punishment for that matter, and the children are encouraged to speak up for themselves. Unfortunately, they're not always particularly choosey about the things they say, and it can be rather alarming and embarrassing.
E.R. Braithwaite
#63. I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean.
John Scalzi
#64. He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up ... knees from buckling ... hands from letting go of the blanket.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#65. Corporal Carrot, Ankh-Morpork City Guard (Night Watch), sat down in his nightshirt, took up his pencil, sucked the end for a moment, and then wrote:
Anonymous
#66. The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.
Louis De Montfort
#67. Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation. "'I think we'd rather not.' Very good, guv'nor. I'll remember that next time."
"Divigation was nice. Where'd you get that one?"
"He swallowed a ****ing dictionary," Corporal Nettle said proudly.
Ian McEwan
#68. Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
Dorothy Day
#69. Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
