The Foot Soldier Quotes

#1. MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree
aren't you?
Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila

Karen Traviss

#3. Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

William J. Clinton

#5. I lived and breathed dancing. It was my everything.

Lisa O'Hare

#6. I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

Alexander The Great

#7. No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Shirin Ebadi

#8. Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

Walter Lippmann

#9. If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#10. The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

Hideki Tojo

#11. Sampson wanted to be "a seven-foot-four guard." He was too pretty to be a soldier. Against the profoundly overmatched Chaminade, he took just nine shots and let his unbeatable team lose to a bunch of beach bum nobodies. He was the greatest, but he wasn't that great.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. You use what moves you.

Laura Ruby

#13. You do a movie, depending on the character, there's some degree of makeup involved, especially when you're playing a vampire and you're all white and kind of dead. Sleeves, regarding costumes, there are generally sleeves, which I appreciate. I think we all do.

Johnny Depp

#14. It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Ian McKellen

#15. It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Saul Bellow

#16. Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

Tucker Carlson

#17. For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

Tim O'Brien

#18. Christ, they would fuck each other to death at this rate. And what a way to go.

D.B. Reynolds

#19. I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

David Bowie

#20. I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

Tucker Carlson

#21. 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.

Sidney Hook

#22. I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

Bjorn Borg

#23. To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to which it turns may be things of beauty.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Benicio Del Toro

#25. I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

Susan Sarandon

#26. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

Henry Rollins

#27. To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.

Daniel Pipes