Quotes about war
war america world
I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business. Rick Santorum
war fighting civilization
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated. Rick Riordan
war smart inevitable
Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.
war hero kids
I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.
war writing long
I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure. Tanith Lee
warrior class islands
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki Tamora Pierce
war thinking grandchildren
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
war differences decision
What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the last century. Isolationsim, refusing to accept our role in the world, and delaying our response to evildoers ultimately cost fifty-three million lives in World War 2 alone. The preemption policy of the Bush administration, taking the war to the enemy and exporting democracy and freedom, has liberated fifty million. Tammy Bruce
warrior fire hair
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. Taisen Deshimaru
war average world
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. Tahar Ben Jelloun
war views environmental
Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons Tadatoshi Akiba
war men heaven
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. Tad Williams
war shameful
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace. Tacitus
war party conquest
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
war crime worst
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
war hippie hatred
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it. T Bone Burnett
war soldier world
If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred. Sylvia Plath
war opportunity feminist
The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
war joy fleeting
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. Rosamunde Pilcher
war winning iraq
He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the controversy of making a public statement against the war. He knew that people were rabid. They attacked me mercilessly after I did the press conference with Musicians United to Win Without War. He knew that he couldn't tolerate that. Rosanne Cash
war believe violence
I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
war planets idiocy
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
war troops visible
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches. Ron Suskind
war difficult circumstances
Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult. Ron Wyden
war home kids
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. Ron Fournier
war iraq aftermath
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
war home white
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.
war responsibility america
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Stephen King
war eight years
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.
war dirty white
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory, but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.
war civilization long
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it. Stephanie Mills
war winning progress
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. Stephen Ambrose
war hero thinking
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.