War Quotes
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.Mao Tse - Tung
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
Only cowards insult dying majesty.Aesop
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
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Hebrews 13: 2
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
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)
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.Halford E. Luccock
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.Denis Diderot
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.Miguel Cerbantes
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.Marcus Aurelius
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.William Punshon
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.Kahlil Gibran
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.Richard Willard Armou
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.Herbert Hoove
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 avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
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
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....Ben Stein
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.Caskie Stinnett
