War Quotes
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.John Locke
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Gladstone
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.Philip Saltie
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.J. Petit - Senn
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas H. Huxley
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.Napoleon Hill
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D Eisenhowe
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.Jeff Pesis
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.Robert E. Lee
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.Hugh Prathe
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.Francois Fenelon
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Hellen Kelle
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.Henry David Thoreau
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.Sue Grafton
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.William Ernest Hocking
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.South
WARNING Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue.Anon.
Beware of the fury of the patient man.John Dryden
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.Herbert Clark Hoove
