Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard 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
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. — Edmund H. North 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 injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“the words of Anthony Eden, Britain’s wartime foreign secretary: “If one hasn’t been through the horrors of an occupation by a foreign… — Alan Riding Copy Share Image
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in… — William Lyon Mackenzie King 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
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
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
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“As Lewis wrote, many years after his wartime service: For let us make no mistake. All that we fear from all the… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
“The 1944 pamphlet advising US troops on how to behave in wartime Britain, which is being re-published by the Imperial War Museum,… — Iain Hollingshead Copy Share Image
It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving 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
...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
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
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
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
I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Pretend you’re on wartime rations, and eat only the humblest of home cooking for a week – you’ll want to plan your… — Annie Raser-Rowland Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image
“My comments are directed at the system which was responsible for their poor performance, not at the officers concerned. I do not… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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