Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noel Coward

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Noel Coward

My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

Nipsey Russell

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night!

Noah Emmerich

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

Mitch Albom

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Mitch Albom

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Mitch Albom

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Mike Tyson

I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.

Mike Tyson

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Neil Kinnock

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Neil Kinnock

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."

Neil Gaiman

Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.

Neil Gaiman

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.

Neil Gaiman

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Neil Gaiman

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

Neil Gaiman

Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

Neil Gaiman

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Neil Gaiman

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

John O. Brennan

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

John O. Brennan

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

John Wayne

Republic . . . it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.

John Wayne

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

John Waters

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

John Waters

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

John Vinocur

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

John Steinbeck

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

John Steinbeck

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

John Steinbeck

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

John Steinbeck

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.