For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I'm a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?"… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been… — Lewis William Walt Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that...… — James Brown Copy Share Image
“American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The BBC had made a television series a few years later but for her nothing could match the magic of the books,… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils?… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You’re going to have some really sexy scars back here, Owe.” “Do girls go for that sort of thing?” She was surprised… — Joan Johnston Copy Share Image
“She had no sense of time, of what day it was, or anything beyond the bed she was on and the unceasing… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal.… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war.… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male… — Heather Graham Pozzessere Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and… — David Downie Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
[My father ] came home from World War II and he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. He was pretty thoughtful about those things,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it'd happened on its own. An instant overload of flashbacks. They talked of PTSD, psychosis, Amok Disorder. Veterans called it going… — Luke E.T. Hindmarsh Copy Share Image
Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Look too on this poor planet of ours, Torn by the storms of mysterious powers, Evil contending with good from its birth,… — Martin Tupper Copy Share Image
“Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. "So… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put… — Larry David Copy Share Image
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image