“I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever. — Russ Meyer Copy Share Image
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The members of my people who took part in the pogrom in Kielce after the end of World War II expelled themselves… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Sgt. Basilone in his personal humility and unwavering dedication to the men who served with him, became a true hero of the… — Jim Proser Copy Share Image
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive,… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
“People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“If you want to save seeds from year to year, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties. The words “heirloom” and “open-pollinated” are… — Katie Elzer-Peters Copy Share Image
“Thanks to an ingenious constitution, their geographical isolation from potential rivals, and a magnificent endowment of natural resources, the Americans managed to… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Net wages: “It’s not what you make, but what you net” after paying the FIRE sector, basic utilities and taxes. The usual… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
“I went along on this ride, as did Adolph, and we returned to the Feudenheim district of Mannheim, which was where our… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.” — Teresa R. Funke Copy Share Image
My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam. — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm glad to see a lot of patriotism in this country - I haven't seen that since World War II. — Rudy Boesch Copy Share Image
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