Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Cary

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

Anne Michaels

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Anne McCaffrey

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

Anne Lamott

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

Alphonse de Lamartine

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Allen West

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

Allen West

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

Allen West

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

Aeschines

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Aesop

Don't go looking for trouble.

Aesop

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Aeschylus

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Aeschylus

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Alexander Payne

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Alexander Payne

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

Alexander McQueen

I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

Alexander Pope

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Alexander Pope

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Alexander Pope

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Alexander Pope

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Alexander Pope

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Alexander Pope

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Albert Speer

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.

Albert Speer

The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It's time ... the Republican Party end the war on women they started. Whether it's the Blunt-Rubio amendment, personhood or attempts to repeal Roe v. Wade, we aren't going to let extremist politicians dictate to women what we can or cannot do with our bodies.

Debbie Ford

A courageous warrior knows that she is powerfully sourced by something much greater than herself and that she can release the judgments of others.

Debbie Ford

It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don’t have to earn this right; it’s yours as part of your birthright.

Debbie Ford

In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.

Debbie Ford

The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.

E. Howard Hunt

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

E. O. Wilson

An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.

E. O. Wilson

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.