Quotes about war
war years sierra-leone
I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years. Cary Fukunaga
war technology epic
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
war bankers
Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
war love-is force
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature. Camille Paglia
war legacy rage
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
warrior natural
I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
war fate world
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
war book quality
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
war media class
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.
warfare kind terror
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. Caleb Carr
war
Never start a war with something you can't talk to. C. J. Cherryh
war government world
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. C. L. R. James
war germany defeated
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
war doors america
If you give me the chance and give me your vote I will protect America from the wars that are being brought to our door step. Chris Christie
war reality america
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. Chris Bohjalian
war hate fighting
I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless. Chris Abani
war bravery doe
Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness. Chogyam Trungpa
warrior space not-afraid
The warrior is not afraid of space
warrior brave should
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
warrior way accepting
Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
warrior play honor
When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him. Chip Kelly
war stories sound
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle... Chinua Achebe
war vines hints
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
warrior long fearless
If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.
war men buying
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition. Chief Joseph
war saws
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
war want ought
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
war writing profound
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
war military air
The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war. Chesty Puller
war iwo-jima islands
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. Chester W. Nimitz
war japan games
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.
war world underestimate
We must not again underestimate the Japanese.
war enemy navy
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.