Sergeants 3 Quotes

#1. The best is not to remember that your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings 'll be like thousands's and thousands'.

Thomas Hardy

#2. Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

Daniel Daly

#3. We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#4. People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Michel Gondry

#5. Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

#6. In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants.

M.R. Carey

#7. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#8. I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

Mike Nichols

#9. If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

T.K. Naliaka

#10. I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

Vikram Seth

#11. I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#12. The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have laid the foundation and developed our quality corporals and sergeants.

Julius W. Gates

#13. Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#14. Most people come up against a wall they give up, not you. You don't let go, you don't back down ... it's what makes you extraordinary. Castle to Beckett

Richard Castle

#15. I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Bill Mauldin

#16. There are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. Old soldier's trick, sir. Sleep when you can." "You're not sleeping, Staff." "Staff sergeants never sleep, sir." "Ever vigilant?" "You've been reading the brochure.

Tanya Huff

#18. Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Terry Pratchett

#19. No one knows how to do officering, Fred. That's why they're officers. If they knew anything, they'd be sergeants.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Pyrenean hemorrhagic fever or PHF," Riese told them, her voice registering fear. "Some are calling it the new Spanish flu, others the red death because of the way the infected's blood oozes from every orifice. Except, unlike the Spanish flu, this one's spreading much, much faster." Anders

James D. Prescott

#21. I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

Hanneli Mustaparta

#22. Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

Joel Brown

#23. He had acquired all the composed and self-reliant look which is so remarkable in a good non-commissioned officer.

Thomas Hughes

#24. He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

Alan Furst

#25. Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

F. E. Adcock

#26. I feel like I should have a formation and make the plantoon sergeants demonstrate how to put a condom on the correct way."

~Evan Loehr

Jessica Scott

#27. It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you.

Ben Aaronovitch