“They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
I simply write what I want, wish, long to write… The state of human life and the god or demon within. The… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people. — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for… — John Major Copy Share Image
I think in terms of being a good presenter, it's not as simple as having been out in a war zone. Actually… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
“In the next days it took little provocation for us to flick the flint of our Zippo lighters. Thatched roofs take the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts.… — Ben Cross Copy Share Image
“Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore;… — Angela Ricketts Copy Share Image
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and… — David Lange Copy Share Image
I know he did horrible things in the jungle. Things no amount of alcohol or pills could erase. War stains soldiers, all… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“And so their spirits soared as they took positions own the passageways of battle all night long, and the watchfires blazed among… — Homer Copy Share Image
“It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that "legends" depend on the language to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead. — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat.… — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
“War in the name of peace is like someone punching you in the face because they want to be your friend. It… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
“I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
Sometimes the only way forward is to walk away, you cannot win every battle, you must remove yourself to live another day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
“Your armor protects your heart, mind, body and soul. Your armor will help you stand flat-footed and firm during the battle.” — Lynn R. Davis Copy Share Image
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“My Aincrad style of swordsmanship was brought here from the floating castle. From a game of death, where every battle risked the… — Reki Kawahara Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land. Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Infidelity in a serious relationship? No, I have never had that kind of a conflict. My conflicts have been time elements, geographical… — Sidharth Malhotra Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, I'm a 'skinny jeans and graphic t-shirt' kind of gal. My combat boots are my life. — Britne Oldford Copy Share Image
“Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at… — Herbert Asbury Copy Share Image
“We are mad if we imagine that the God of love revealed in Jesus will bless us in waging war.” — Brian Zahnd Copy Share Image
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
