War Quotes

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author unknown - beware of the man who knows the answer before he...
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.
Clement Stone
George stanley mcgovern - to those who charge that liberalism has been...
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
William tecumseh sherman - war is cruel and you cannot refine it....
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Clark Hoove
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Prove
Solutions - The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.
Latin
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
David Weatherford
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
Joseph Conrad
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - Never knowing.
David Viscott
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
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
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese prove
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
Bell Hooks
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
C. Lee Hopkin
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
Richard Milhous Nixon