When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will… We must be the great arsenal of democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“No thoughts had I of anything, Or at least that's what I thought; I even thought I couldn't think, But now I… — Christopher Miller Copy Share Image
The international rules-based order in the wake of World War II is the order that has ensured prosperity and security now for… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Only in the Soviet Union did women carry arms and engage in routine front-line combat duty on a large scale during World… — Bill Yenne Copy Share Image
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
“Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Germany is not the only country that one could call post-heroic. But there is an additional aspect for Germany when it comes… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Despite shared language, ethnicity, and culture, alliances nurtured deep, long-standing hostilities toward one another, the original source of which was often unknown.… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
The president sets the tone. He creates the atmosphere, and that can be enlightened, progressive, or it can be intimidating, depending on… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“You just got sprung." "Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked. "Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he… — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything? — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
World War III would become a great possibility, but such a scenario is quite possible under any new US administration... To answer… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Since the end of World War II, U.S. presidents of both parties have recognized that foreign and domestic policy do not have… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered? — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
