Puller Quotes & Sayings

Where the hell do you put the bayonet? — Chesty Puller

What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt ... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States. — Chesty Puller

To bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out — David Baldacci

I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo's frustrations, with the veteran's frustrations. — Sylvester Stallone

Increase is a crowd puller — Sunday Adelaja

Facts are irrefutable. Truths coming from those facts can be difficult to accept, particularly when they are of a personal nature. But truths, Agent Puller, cannot be ignored. Any more than lies can. And people do lie to themselves. All the time. We — David Baldacci

When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you'll keep going forward! — Israelmore Ayivor

I want to go where the guns are! — Chesty Puller

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. — Chesty Puller

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller. — P.T. Barnum

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon. — William Monahan

My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle ... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. — Chesty Puller

Side. Diaz the right. They were prepared for a war. They did not find one. They did not find anyone at all. The warehouse was empty. The makeshift prison cells held no one. They searched the space in ten minutes and then regrouped in the center of it. Puller said, "They move fast, I'll give them that." "But where have they gone?" asked Carson. "We can get APBs out. They have to be using trucks — David Baldacci

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad. — Chesty Puller

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps. — Chesty Puller

Something always leads to something else. - John Puller — David Baldacci

a while. To let John Puller Sr. see what his real priorities were in life. And then, depending on what he decided, they would go from there. Puller folded the letter and slid it back into the envelope. Words from the grave. Or if not the grave, Puller didn't know where. Despite the obvious love and affection she held for her sons, as noted in the letter, Puller came away from reading it more depressed than he had been before. Part of him had hoped that his mother had left her husband. Because that meant she might still be alive. To Puller, this letter meant that his mother most likely was dead. He would take bullets and bombs and jihadist fanatics trying to rip his life from him over that. You fought for the flag and country you represented. But you really fought for the guy beside you. Here, Puller was alone. It was just him and a vanished mother to whom he had given all of his heart. As he stood there looking down at the envelope, depression — David Baldacci

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. — Chesty Puller

And can I camping on you to cover my back?
You have to ask?
I wouldn't be asking if I didn't think I had to.
Yes, I'll have your back. Will you have mine?
I've had your back ever since you showed up, Knox.
(John Puller and Veronica Knox) — David Baldacci

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely. — Paul Bettany

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war. — Chesty Puller

Zero Day was here. — David Baldacci

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time! — Chesty Puller

Paperwork will ruin any military force. — Chesty Puller

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. — Chesty Puller

Rinehart added, "Which means he's on the East Coast. Or at least he was." Puller continued to stare at Carter. "When did — David Baldacci

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training. — Chesty Puller

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem! — Chesty Puller

But I bet they don't know what I saw." Puller sat down in a chair next to her bed. "So why don't you tell me what that was?" Knox glanced at the glass door to her room and saw a police officer, a man in a suit, and a burly MP standing guard there. "They're not taking any chances with you," he said, following her gaze. "Cops, FBI, and the military." She turned back to Puller and slowly but clearly told him what she had seen. The van, the kid, everything. "So it was a deliberate setup the whole way," Puller concluded. "It appeared to be. But why target Carter?" "Well, he heads up an important part of our nation's defenses. He's a target just by virtue — David Baldacci

He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes. — David Baldacci

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em. — Chesty Puller

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. — Chesty Puller

time - quite the reverse. Puller hadn't even reached his Malibu when he heard the man. — David Baldacci

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go. — Chesty Puller

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. — Nicolas Roeg

I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear ... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact. — Chesty Puller

crossed her arms and stared back at him. "I really don't have to tell you anything." "No, you really don't." He pointed to the cops and detectives. "But those guys you do. And I'd have a better story prepared than the bullshit you just tried to feed me." Myers rose. "I need to attend to some things." "I'm sure. Calling a really good lawyer should be first on the list." She hurried from the room and disappeared down the hall to her office. On a hunch Puller went over to the bar where one of the waiters was sitting looking exhausted. He held up his set of keys and said, "Ms. Myers asked me to get something from her car, but she was so distraught she forgot to tell me what make and model." The man said, "Oh, it's the blue BMW 750. License plate says 'Grunt.' She parks it in the back lot." "Thanks. — David Baldacci

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". — Chesty Puller

Screen. "Then get your gear and head out." When White looked back moments later, Puller — David Baldacci

Boxing in Hartlepool started on the beach at Seaton Carew where the fighters fought bare knuckle. In the early 1900s there was a boxing booth on the corner of Burbank Street known as the 'Blood Tub'.
The Blood Tub always drew the crowds and you were guaranteed a good punch up. Hartlepool was a booming ship port and someone would go round the docks and pick five coloured seamen for what was called an 'All In'. One in each corner and one in the middle and when the bell rang it was every man for himself and the winner was the one left standing after some furious toe-to-toe exchanges. That was always a big crowd puller. — Stephen Richards

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller — David Baldacci