Conscripted Soldiers Quotes & Sayings

Don't die wondering "What if I could have done that..."

Die, saying "I remember when I did... — John R. Morris

What a blessed bliss to be alive? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore. — Ronnie Hawkins

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade. — John Paul Stevens

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need. — Terry Gilliam

Te is thus the natural miracle of one who seems born to be wise and humane, comparable to what we call "perfect specimens" of flowers, trees, or butterflies - though sometimes our notions of the perfect specimen are too formal. Thus Chuang-tzu enlarges on the extraordinary virtue of being a hunchback, and goes on to suggest that being weird in mind may be even more advantageous than being weird in body. He compares the hunchback to a vast tree which has grown to a great old age by virtue of being useless for human purposes because its leaves are inedible and its branches twisted and pithy.5 Formally healthy and upright humans are conscripted as soldiers, and straight and strong trees are cut down for lumber; wherefore the sage gets by with a perfect appearance of imperfection, such as we see in the gnarled pines and craggy hills of Chinese painting. — Alan W. Watts

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle. — Helen Sharman

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time. — Frank Black

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era. — Tim O'Brien

I love tennis, love it! — David Oyelowo

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway. — George Foreman

'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation. — Tim Daly

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. — Simone Weil