War Quotes

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Muriel Spark
Demophilus - the beauty of a statue is in its outward form of...
Sir winston churchill, march 1936, demanding british re - armament - virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and...
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
Wall street journal, march 15, 1991 - before the gulf war started, the iraqi army was...
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
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
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Dr. Jonas Salk
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Oprah Winfrey
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
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
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca
The absence of war is not peace.
Harry S Truman
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
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".
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
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
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
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
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
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Alford
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
Joseph Conrad
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill