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...

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.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.Wherever he sits himself the chair collapses; whatever door heenters the room is empty: whatever he puts...

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

Drive. He’s already dead.

Soldier’s fashion accessory is his weapon just like a jewelry for women.

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to...

You can’t get the blood out.

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