Top 32 Soldiering Quotes
#1. So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly.
Bernard Cornwell
#2. As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.
Kate Winslet
#3. Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
Rob Sheffield
#4. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.
Rebecca Solnit
#5. Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would hear me. Still, I have to keep soldiering on until I die, the only way I know how. Not a laudable sort of life, but the only life I know how to live.
Haruki Murakami
#6. If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
Julia Cameron
#7. Passion, Baird reckoned, was what would take men across the river and up the breach. Damn scientific soldiering now. The science of siege warfare had opened the city, but only a screaming and insane passion would take men inside.
Bernard Cornwell
#8. The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Timothy West
#9. But I find soldiering false, a broken way to manage people who should be bound to you in love, not fear.
Kameron Hurley
#10. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.
Kathleen Koen
#11. If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.
Geraldine Brooks
#12. I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.
Michael Winter
#13. My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#14. She didn't want to need anything, particularly something - or someone - she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on
Julie Anne Long
#15. So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said
Bernard Cornwell
#16. Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
Mike Jackson
#17. This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
Lew Wallace
#18. A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
Albert Kesselring
#19. The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
Douglas MacArthur
#20. War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#21. My friendship with Esther Earl began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention.
John Green
#24. There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.
Michael J. Fox
#25. It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.
Marion Bartoli
#26. What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that
Sujit Lalwani
#27. I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.
Maripol
#28. It isn't every day a wish comes true and you, Ember, are the answer to my wish.
L.A. Fiore
#30. The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.
Seth Dickinson
#31. We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.
John Flavel
#32. There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
Robert A. Heinlein
