Mercenary Quotations

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

Men's and women's choices were quite different, but it's clear we all want a mom who's strong and supportive. Men, however, want mom to be prepared for anything. Even mercenary robots from the future.

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

This is a new phenomenon ? not the mercenary quality, but the fact that people are willing to risk this kind of money, just to say they're married. Love has been so idealized that at the top, the rich are willing to throw good money after bad to see if they can get the magic ring.

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.

I haven't been anywhere past five years before. I don't know what this is like. To tell you the truth, I've been a mercenary coach my whole life.

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

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got ‘tude. (Dev)

(The helicopter) was on the ship not because HMS Cornwall was cooperating in any kind of mercenary activity, but because the West African commander was cooperating with HMS Cornwall in its humanitarian effort,

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

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

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

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.