War Quotes

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Gustav Jung

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

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Virginia Hanson

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch - Engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

A Bartlett Giamatti

There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

C. A. R. Hoare

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Helen Kelle

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Gerald R. Ford

Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

Ken Thompson

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.

Thomas Leonard

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Unknown

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well - Housed, well - warmed, and well - Fed.

Herman Melville

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland