The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying...

If 12 of the finest soldiers were asked to follow bravely into battle, and near certain death, then I’d be very grateful to be the 13th best fighter.

Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors....

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

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

Imagine a soldier who believes killing another human being is wrong, kills his first human being in war when he has never killed before. Worse still, imagine this same soldier has his enemy in his...

Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.

…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to...

Don’t let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn’t be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

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

We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in.

It was her turn to hold him up.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

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.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

Exactly. Well, except for the fact that at the time we didn’t know if we ever could deliberately send something or someone, but we were already sure it was a one-way trip.

A soldier is not always just a soldier.

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

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

Tis action moves the world….[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if...

A hard soldier is a strong soldier is a living soldier.

A soldier wages war, and for what, minimum wage? I’d rather make love for free—or better still, get paid to have sex.

Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.

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

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

I like you better in a pair of worn jeans, and I think you deserve someone who appreciates what he’s got. Not someone out to have a good time.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.

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

I’m always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in ‘El Gringo;’ it shows in the new ‘Universal Soldier.’ You can’t rest on your laurels; you’ve got to keep improving.

The unrelenting grip of Soldier’s Syndrome slips finger by slow finger. The marrow’s been affected—emotional leukemia at the deepest level. Transplants of love and friendship aid healing, yet time is still key, and the clock...

Every lover is a soldier.

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

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the hands of those who have undertaken to trail our Flag in the dust....

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.

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

Soon you shall be landing In the battleground, ensure you have the right weapons to fight the enemy; ensure you know your enemy and what he is capable of; take them unprepared to gain the...

The man was potent to her system, her very own drug.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

A soldier is a killer painted hero.

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.

Everyone’s a knucklehead at one point or another.

Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife…at the end of it you know you’ll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies – but it’ll be one hell...

You must be a light unto yourself.

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