War Quotes

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

John Anthony Ciardi

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

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

From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.

William Shakespeare, Henry V.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.

Francois Fenelon

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

In war, there are no unwounded solders.

Jose Narosky

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Thucydides

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen, Emma

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

Author Unknown

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E. Lee

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin