War Quotes
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
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
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
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
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
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
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.Arthur C. Clarke
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.Jefferson Davis
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.Elias Canetti
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.James Thurbe
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.Kahlil Gibran
War is like love it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
War is the continuation of politics by other means.General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.Jonathan Swift
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.Golda Mei
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.Native American Prove
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.Joe Moore
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.Brian Tracy
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.The Work of the Chariot
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.Mae West
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.Albert Camus
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula K. LeGuin
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.Elliot Wayne Eisne
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
