Mercenary Quotes

• If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

  Howard Tayler

  Lasts, Violence, Enough

  "Schlock Mercenary" by Howard Tayler,

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• It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

  Robbie Fowler

  Real, Men, Leaving

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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• I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

  Larry Holmes

  Hard Work, Killers, Fighter

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• I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Believe, Fighter, Havana

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

  David Gill

  Player, People

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• Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

  Howard Tayler

  Running, Ordnance, Maxims

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• Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

  Alma Gluck

  Soul, Purses, Sides

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

  David Johansen

  Hate, Acting, Roles

  "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

  Evan Wright

  Warrior, Gun, Bully

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• I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

  Barry Eisler

  Earth, Daring, Kill Me

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• Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Heaven, Soul

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

  Xaviera Hollander

  Prostitution, Call Me, Customers

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• The only way out is through.

  Robert Frost

  Christian Inspirational, Anxiety, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ties, Hard

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Heart, Religion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Liberty, World

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.212

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• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Media Control, People, Cynical

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

  Howard Tayler

  Winning, Shells, Position

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• When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

  James Frey

  Reason, Screenwriters

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Heart, Games, Trying

  Interview with Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Endeavor

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• Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Men

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

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