War Quotes
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.Anatol Rapoport
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.Kahlil Gibran
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.John Dryden
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.Holbrook Jackson
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.Hunter S. Thompson
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.Alfred North Whitehead
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
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
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
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas Huxley
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.Augustine Birrell
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.Paulo Coelho, Brida
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.Will Rogers
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.Blessing Irish
