Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If the enemy can still your faith in the midst of a battle, then you don't have wisdom to make the right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Kate had dressed for battle, donning her finest pink muslin morning dress. With lace at her wrists and mother-of-pearl buttons at her… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“So it’s our fault.” “Yes. Like everything else. War. Famine. Bad hair.” “Wait. Bad hair?” Shallan blew a lock of it out… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Instead of doing away with the class war, we ought to intensify it, catch our enemy by the throat, because if we… — Jerzy Andrzejewski Copy Share Image
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.. if you are scared to go… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” ―… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. — John Milton Copy Share Image
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Conflict isn’t merely physical, Old Wusong. Every interaction is a battle. An exchange of words for instance.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
“To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.” — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
'Everyone you may meet is fighting some sort of battle withing, that one knows nothing about? so be KIND!' — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image