War Quotes

Beatrix potte - all outward forms of religion are almost useless,...
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
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
Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.
Ken Thompson
Rebecca west - before a war military science seems a real...
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
Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.
J. Petit - Senn
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
Croesus of Lydia
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
Franoise Mallet - Joris
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
Economics is war pursued by other means.
Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.
Henry Seely
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
John Ernst Steinbeck
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Whitall Smith
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
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
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
Larry Niven
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
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.
Euripides