War Quotes
Beware the fury of a patient man.John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.Oscar Wilde
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.E. B. White
The best soldiers are not warlike.Chinese
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
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.Dorothy Sayers
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.Dave Parnas
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
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.Hans A. Bethe
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.Elbert Hubbard
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.Bruce Lee
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.Robert Martin Fuoss
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.Christopher Morley
To hold a pen is to be at war.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.Ambrose Bierce
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
