War Quotes

G. c. lichtenberg - he was then in his fifty - fourth year, when even...
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.
Kahlil Gibran
Economics is war pursued by other means.
Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.
Ayn rand, anthem, 1946 - i need no warrant for being, and no word of...
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.
James Kelly
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou En Lai
Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.
Thomas Leonard
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.
Loren
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...
Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.
Antigonus of Sokho
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
Franoise Mallet - Joris
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
Robert Ardrey
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
Jerry Coleman
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.
Lester Bowles Pearson
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.
Ellen Karsh
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J. Gel