Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gaffigan

It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.

Jim Gaffigan

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

Jesse Jackson

We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.

Jennifer Morrison

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

Jeffrey Sachs

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

Jeffrey Sachs

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

Jeff Gannon

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

Jean M. Auel

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

Jean Giraudoux

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Jean Giraudoux

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Jean Giraudoux

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Jean Giraudoux

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

James Cagney

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

James Carville

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

James Buchan

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

James C. Collins

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

James A. Michener

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Garfield

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

James A. Garfield

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

James A. Garfield

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

James A. Garfield

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

Jacqueline Susann

The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

Jacqueline Winspear

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

Jacqueline Winspear

What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

Jacqueline Winspear

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

Jacqueline Winspear

It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."

Jacqueline Carey

Wars come and go; politics endure.

Jacqueline Carey

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.