Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“People die, sure,” my mother was saying. “But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” “They won’t,” Tyrion said.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
I will get things done for America… Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground…… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
“the American public doesn’t mourn contractor deaths the way we do the deaths of our soldiers. We rarely even hear about them.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
“I sat up and wiped my eyes, cursing the damned faeries and their eternal war. It seemed there was never enough time.… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Biden cares about people. He is the person who stays up late making calls to the families of those we lost in… — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The Dark Cloud Is a miserable person that commits war crimes and thinks they’re cool Is a fight that breaks out between… — Aida Mandic Copy Share Image
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be… — Susan Higginbotham Copy Share Image
“In all honesty (and I know I’m complaining excessively now), I was still getting over Stalin, in Russia. The so-called second revolution—the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“We live in a moment in which old conflicts, much altered during their subterraneous years, have boiled up again. The struggle to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the… — Adrian G. Hilder Copy Share Image
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military… — Boake Carter Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“While there is battle and hatred men have eyes for nothing save the fact that the enemy is the cause of all… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter… — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
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