Quotes about war
war space people
History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. Jodi Picoult
war survivor remember
How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
war holocaust world
History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.
warning habit shout-out
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
war fall past
Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell in love with in the life before, and the one before that. Sometimes, you might miss her - she'd be reborn in post-World War I generation, and you wouldn't come back until the fifties. Sometimes, your paths would cross and you wouldn't recognize each other. Get it right - that is: fall madly, truly, deeply - and perhaps there'd be an eternity carved out solely for the two of you.
war men ready
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war. John Grisham
war drama years
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. Ken Follett
war america eras
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
war writing world
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
war thinking years
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. Kazuo Ishiguro
war gone youth
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. Kingsley Amis
war oklahoma
I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma! Kinky Friedman
war years europe
In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power. Oren Peli
war evil atomic-weapons
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar N. Bradley
war civilization wretched
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
war military army
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.
war immoral concerned
As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.
war political guilt
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
war words-of-wisdom dying
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.
war self-esteem fighting
lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems. Oprah Winfrey
war world courses
And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen Oliver North
war littles too-much
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.
war littles merit
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . . Oliver Goldsmith
war bridges car
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. Margaret Atwood
war winning thinking
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
war fire ashes
It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
war vietnam safe
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
war thinking glasses
The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?
war needs our-actions
As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.
war empowering language
War is what happens when language fails.
war fighting winning
we train for war and fight to win. Marcus Luttrell
war mean skills
We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.
war home people
Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.