My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird. — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will… — Nancy Kricorian Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
“An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the… — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
“Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The historical record contradicts the assumption that the Nazis sentenced large numbers of people to death during World War II for telling… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps.… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“Daily media reports of China’s “aggressive” behavior and unwillingness to accept the “international rules-based order” established by the US after World War… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“When one looks back across a chasm of seventy years, through a prism of pulp fiction and bad gangster movies, there is… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times. — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Sgt. Basilone in his personal humility and unwavering dedication to the men who served with him, became a true hero of the… — Jim Proser Copy Share Image
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The members of my people who took part in the pogrom in Kielce after the end of World War II expelled themselves… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image