War Quotes
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.Plato, The Republic
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.Miguel Cerbantes
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.Helen Kelle
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.Alvin Toffle
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.Henry Louis Mencken
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.Solomon Short
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
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
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.Sun Tzu
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.Dr. Jonas Salk
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.Margaret Fairless Barbe
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.Ayn Rand
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.Indira Ghandi
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.Native American Prove
