“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.” Carl von Clausewitz” — Scott J Roberts Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you… — David McCampbell Copy Share Image
“Some battles don’t have a winner. Sometimes the best a good general can hope for is a ceasefire” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
After eight years of fighting, and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, my mother lost her battle with cancer. I think… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the… — Gegard Mousasi Copy Share Image
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of… — George VI Copy Share Image
Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. — Vasily Chuikov Copy Share Image
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
My mother, Edna, was a seamstress and my father, John, was a Royal Marine, and at war when I was born -… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Raindrops make rivers and ocean - our deep intention and positive actions will make the world free from nuclear weapons and wars.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive. — Thiago Alcantara Copy Share Image
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“They Served ...reliving memories that will not die giving their all for you and I - friends taken lives shaken...” — Muse Copy Share Image
To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars. — Adm James Crowe Copy Share Image
“I can be either a good friend or a good Nazi, Emil thought. He knew now that he couldn’t be both.” — Lee Strauss Copy Share Image
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In all of my years doing this job, I have never given the drug to anyone over three months pregnant; not once,… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
You and I go hard at each other like we're going to war. You and I go rough, we keep throwing things… — Maroon 5 Copy Share Image