Leon Uris Quotes

My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.

Unfortunately, the historical record of failure to prevent strategic surprises is overwhelming. In conventional warfare, victims usually misread the evidence or miscalculate their responses, and they can suffer surprise even when their intelligence collection systems and defensive preparations are impressive.

No Dependence can be put on the Militia for a continuance in Camp, or Regularity and Discipline during the short time they may stay

It is useless to try so frequently and unsuccessfully, attempt upon attempt, to instruct the great mass of people in the art of war

If I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by the rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would … supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently exposure to battle and disease be greatly diminished.

Tennis players have the ugliest feet.

If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

My feet are killing me." "I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

My feet is my only carriage.

Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you will discover the human foot. On discovering it, your joy will be as great as if you had invented it. But this joy is the greatest, because no human invention even of Mr. Ford or Mr. Marconi is within a mile of a foot.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.