War Quotes
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
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.
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 man to whom you have done a good turn.Lebanese Prove
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.Donald G. Smith
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
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow
The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.Walter Goodman
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.Erasmus
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.Paulo Coelho, Brida
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.Leonardo DaVinci
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.Mark Twain
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
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
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
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Home
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.Molly Wiest
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
In war, there are no unwounded solders.Jose Narosky
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.Enlai Zhou
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.Benjamin Franklin
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.Richard Milhous Nixon
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
