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...

One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with...

But the future is uncertain, and he can’t get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

Do the people in this country approve of this war?” […].”Approve? You don’t think we’d lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!””But...

I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can’t, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than...

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity,...

Your name?” George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about him. King Davit would have no doubt have known half the man’s history...

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

He was a soldier for peace.

When people know you’ve been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

I know what I’m capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.

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

The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if...

I’m very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning’s story, the army intelligence officer who’s being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through the steam that rose from his pear-can coffee mug, handed Mellas the cup. Mellas gave a brief smile and...

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

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

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

We made love like a flag draped over the coffin of a soldier. But that soldier, he fought for that flag’s enemy—he fought for the innocent people living under the shadow of that flag.

Although I’m an atheist, I try not to crap all over people’s belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little...

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

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

I wanted to write an antiwar song but didn’t want to denigrate the courage of the soldier, … There was too much of that ‘baby killer’ stuff going on.

There’s no pride in having been a child soldier.

Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_...

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

I think it’s absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.

But as much as this is a soldier’s reason d’etre, it is not often that you hear a soldier explicitly talk about ‘killing’. The k-word as a verb is instead often disguised and supplanted by...

Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything coolly while his body raced wildly with passion and fear. He was frightened beyond any fear he had ever known....

You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.

I’m not a bad person.

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Amnesia was a soldier’s best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.

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

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect...

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

This time we’ll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it’s better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our...

Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. “I’m an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

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