Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Reagan

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Ron Reagan

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

Romain Gary

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

Susan Sarandon

I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in his early twenties, there were things mentioned that showed up in his novels. One of the sweetest things in those letters was him wanting to be a writer but doubting himself, not having confidence in himself.

Susan Glaspell

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

Susan Glaspell

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

Susan Glaspell

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Susan Griffin

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Susan Griffin

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense.” “Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion.

Susan Cain

Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

Suheir Hammad

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

Suheir Hammad

I will not dance to your war drum!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Simon Armitage

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

Simon Armitage

I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.

Simon Beaufoy

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

Simon Bolivar

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

Simon Bolivar

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

Sidney Blumenthal

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

Sheryl WuDunn

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.

Shigeru Miyamoto

What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

Shel Silverstein

I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war

Shel Silverstein

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

Sharon Kay Penman

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

Natalie Maines

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Tawakkol Karman

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Tao Lin

Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].

Taliesin

Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?

Taliesin

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.