War Quotes · Page 340

“The battle of the big belly is fought using the weapons of dietary changes, exercise, and most importantly, discipline.”

— Diamond Dallas Page

“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...”

— Slava Pilotoff

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying…

— David Crosby

“I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.”

— Louise Andrews Kent

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

— Melanie Phillips

No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

— James Madison

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and…

— Ferdowsi

“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge…

— Leon Wieseltier

“I was doing everything wrong. I was confused. Confusion is inevitable in battle, but indecision is unforgivable, and I had hesitated to…

— Bernard Cornwell

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and…

— Sun Tzu

Some of the biggest battles you face as a minister are, in the nicest possible way, with Whitehall and internally with civil…

— Suella Braverman

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty…

— Bryant H. McGill

With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to…

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

— Abraham Lincoln

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

— Sun Tzu

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

— Jason Jones

“The United States Navy, during the war, used Navajos as "code-talkers" who relayed messages from ship to ship, talking in Navajo (a…

— Michael Lesk

I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government,…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or…

— Stevie Smith

“They love their families with their hearts and souls and they wage war against them to prove it.”

— Pat Conroy

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

— Robin Oliveira

I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and…

— Mark Fuhrman

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

— Sun Tzu

“Part III: Waken a Statue "You've witnessed horrific wars, but the greatest to be seen lies within yourself.”

— J.R. Vaineo

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have…

— Foster Friess

“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep…

— Alice Hoffman

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the…

— William Butler Yeats

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

— Gary Gulman

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning…

— Dana Gould

Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.

— Bettany Hughes

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

— Henry Giroux

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've…

— Austin Butler

“Happiness is just a spicing to life, nothing essential, struggle and war are what has kept the world going around in perfect…

— Hala Alzaghal

“I’ve learned that effort spent on unwinnable battles is wasted effort. It’s best to simply move on to something worth conquering.”

— John Herrick