“People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.” — Danny M. Cohen Copy Share Image
In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more… — Laura Fraser Copy Share Image
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete,… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“When war is "over," it is never simply "over." The first war takes place during wartime. The second war, the far longer… — Clarrisa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of… — connie willis Copy Share Image
Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time. — Tim Kennedy Copy Share Image
The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling. — Betty Comden Copy Share Image
There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image