War Quotes

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Kristen Ashley Roth

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

Dan McKinnon

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Ted Morgan

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Larry Niven

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

C. A. R. Hoare

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

In war, there are no unwounded solders.

Jose Narosky