War Quotes
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.Kahlil Gibran
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.Albert Camus
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.Sun - Tzu
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.H. P. Lovecraft
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.Marilyn King
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.Dave Barry
Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.Faith Whittlesey
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.Martin Luther King Jr.
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.Unknown
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
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.R. A. Lafferty
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.Author Unknown
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
The best soldiers are not warlike.Chinese
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.Solomon Short
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.Henry David Thoreau
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
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
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
