A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old…

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

— Kevin Maney

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford…

— Sally Stanford

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and…

— Attila the Hun

There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections…

— Robert Toombs

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally.…

— Jimmy Carter

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation.

— Adolf Hitler

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these…

— Ross Kemp

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the…

— Walt Whitman

A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000…

— Yamini Krishnamurthy

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens…

— Anna Quindlen

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was…

— Mitt Romney

Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more…

— Douglas Rushkoff