Life is war, winning that war doesn't mean evacuation.

“A great gift would be a map full of evacuation routes for the city, subtly telling the recipient to get the hell out of…

— Jarod Kintz

“Crete, May 1941. It was nearly five o’clock when the three soldiers reached the end of the olive grove. The dust-filled air shimmered in…

— Mark Ellis

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving…

— Mary Roach

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England…

— Peter Shaffer

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder,…

— Bono

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in…

— John Hodgman

“House Speaker Tip O’Neill, one of the few briefed on the evacuation procedures, recalled, “I kind of lost interest in it when they told…

— Garrett M. Graff

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And…

— Jay Nixon

To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become…

— Reinhard Heydrich

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of…

— William Shenstone

I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one…

— Dale Archer

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous…

— Abraham Lincoln

Wars are not won by evacuations.

— Winston Churchill

“evacuation on September 11. It was aided greatly by changes made by the Port Authority in response to the 1993 bomb= ing and by…

— Anonymous