War Quotes

As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albert einstein - the ideals which have lighted my way, and time...
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr. Thomas Dooley
Ausonius - if you are a terror to many, then beware of many....
Sir james glove - a man of character in peace is a man of courage...
Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war - For - Profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
John W. N. Sullivan
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Albert Camus
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Chuang - Tzu
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Otto Von Bismarck
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.
Hugh Elliott
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
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
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 reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Dr. Jonas Salk
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffe
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.
David Armistead
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.
William Punshon
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. Trevelyan
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese prove
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.
Walker Percy
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David Thoreau
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
Walt Whitman