Best Soldiers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“This place is Hell’s waiting room.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Drive. He’s already dead.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Dude, don’t die out here.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“I’m not a bad person.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.”

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Book:The Good Soldiers

Source: The Good Soldiers

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!” (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”

Death Fighting Inspiring Determination Grit Soldiers Battles Veterans Fighting For Your Life

Author:Michael G. Kramer

“It wasn't as if they had a choice. They were soldiers whose choices had ended when they had signed contracts and taken their oaths. Whether they had joined for reasons of patriotism, of romantic notions, to escape a broken home of some sort, or out of economic need, their job now was to follow the orders of other soldiers who were following orders, too. Somewhere, far from Iraq, was where the orders began, but by the time they reached Rustamiyah, the only choice left for a solider was to choose which lucky charm to tuck behind his body armor, or which foot to line up in front of the other, as he went out to follow the order of the day.”

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Book:The Good Soldiers

Source: The Good Soldiers

“After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated: “We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!” (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”

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Author:Michael G. Kramer

“That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.”

War Death Weapons Soldiers

Book:Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“One of them had something small and black in his hand that Johnson very much feared was a gun. He was considering his options when he saw Goldberg’s head emerge above the latch door.”

Death Fighting Determination Army Pilots Soldiers Battles Veterans Fighting For Your Life Front Line

Book:Death of an Officer

Source: Death of an Officer

“Evan stares at me. I try to hug him. He takes a step back. I pause, my heart in my throat. I’ve got to reach out to him, let myself be vulnerable. I find the courage, but he backs up again. “You can’t go to Iraq anymore.” “I know.” He looks up at Deanna, then back to me. “Did you fight bad guys? You told me you weren’t.” His voice is suspicious, full of accusation. He doesn’t trust me, and I don’t blame him for that. “No, Evan. I didn’t fight bad guys.” I can’t bring myself to tell him the complete truth. I want so desperately to go back into this fight. I miss it every day. I always felt I could change the world with a rifle in my hands and our flag on my shoulder. “Did you get shot?” he looks me over, apparently searching for bullet wounds. I grin a little. “No, Bud, I didn’t get shot.” “People get shot in Iraq.” “Yes, they do.” It strikes me then that Evan for the first time has a grasp on the dangers that are faced over there. He’s six now, and the world is coming into focus for him. “People get shot, Daddy. They die. Bad guys kill them.” I think of Edward Iwan and Sean Sims. “Yeah, I know they do, Evan.”

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Book:House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

Source: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

“Fuck it,” said Private First Class Chris Barnes, raising his hand. “Let’s do it. This sounds like a great fucking idea. Who wants to get blown up?” They started laughing. Watt, Barker, Cortez, and Private First Class Shane Hoeck all raised their hands. They did not give a damn anymore. It was all so absurd to them, that they were going to drive up and down a road for the next eight hours as bomb magnets. The only thing that they could do was laugh. “Hooray! We’re going out to get blown up!” they sang. “Who’s on board? Hey, who wants to come get blown up? Woohoo! Yeah, dude, I am ready to go fucking die! We are all going to fucking die!”

War Death Military Army Iraq Die Soldiers

Book:Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

Source: Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”

Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead

“… Some of my friends will never return, for they died on this the most extraordinary trek in history – a trek that caused untold suffering to thousands of people of many nationalities … from ‘Out of the Burma Night’ by Captain Gribble”

Death Fighting Determination Soldiers Battles Veterans Fighting For Your Life Records From Ww2 Unusual Books

Book:EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

Source: EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942