A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“At the end of World War II, American military policy, digesting the Japanese lessons in China, was to control air and sea… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I urge all Connecticut residents to reflect on the sacrifices made by the Greatest Generation during World War II. In the aftermath… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“The historical significance of the fact that we were going out on a joint raid with German Special Operations was lost on… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
“Serbs don’t forget, as the graffito goes, the atrocities that the Croatian ustashas committed against them in World War II. That was… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“I told him about the Oedipal thing, about my father leaving when I was very young so I knew how to pine… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensionsof those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
World War I was the deadliest conflict the world had ever known. Veterans Day originated from the American people recognizing that a… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun?… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“He served as a cryptanalyst with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and returned to River-bank to write an 87-page… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, however, weapons of mass destruction tend to attract maniacs: men - it's almost always men - who want to jab the… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But,… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
![“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my…” quote by Greg Iles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d19/greg-iles-4609_black_a-lot-of-my-books-have-been-that-way-my_1454133.jpg)
