War Quotes

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato, The Republic

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

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

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoove

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Anatol Rapoport

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

John McCain

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

Anon.

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

Thomason

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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

James Thurbe

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

Dave Barry

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

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

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Author Unknown

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

Patricia Russell - McCloud

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Arnold Toynbee

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare