Quotes about war
war sacrifice america
Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live. Ronald Reagan
war believe thinking
I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.
war party cold
I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.
war cities weather
The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process. Said Sayrafiezadeh
war character weather
Since most of the action of the war actually happens off the page (offstage), I wanted to give the characters something they had to contend with on a daily basis, some sort of obstacle. Weather seemed to be the one great equalizer regardless of your station in life - when it snows, everyone is inconvenienced to a certain degree. Plus it's tactile, weather, it affects the skin.
war writing character
The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?
war character wanted-love
Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted a sense of a future. So do they. So does the reader. But perhaps I shouldn't speak for everyone when I say that love and happiness are interdependent. In my own experience, happiness came with love. Specifically, my wife. That's when my own apathy and stasis ended for good.
war men enemy
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. Saint Augustine
war order provoking
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
war may spirit
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
war men suffering
Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war. Vera Brittain
war writing mean
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.
war modern civilisation
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
war thinking self
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. Vera Farmiga
war creativity men
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. Van Wyck Brooks
war lines normal
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. Ulrich Beck
war fighting empathy
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes. Uma Thurman
war army civil-war
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. Ulysses S. Grant
war punishment presidential
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
war men europe
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.
war men white-man
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
war civil-war turns
It will be all right if it turns out all right.
war had-enough shows
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
war history devil
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
war progressive instruments
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.
war slavery ends
I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
war clerks paper
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
war gun men
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
war daylight retreat
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
war military bad-ass
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
war thinking history
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
war tired thinking
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
war army texas
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.