Military Quotes

I write to get ideas out of my head

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out ‘what will you be today?’ and I heard ‘relentless’ booming from the rafters inside an old gym as Sami and a group of young men chased dreams and trophies while their fathers went to war.

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends.

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Technically, you don't pay me.
And technically, most of what I do is "think."

I...rrr. ummm.

And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.
-Ennesby & Captain Tagon

Maxim 3:
An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Aim towards enemy." - instructions on U.S. rocket launcher

Maxim 11:
Everything is air-droppable at least once.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?"

"Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!"

"I guess that explains their rich military history, then.