War Quote by Arthur Wellesley Wellington Download Open image ““Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”” — Arthur Wellesley Wellington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“It occurred to me, even in that moment: you can win the battle and still lose the war.” — Chris Cole Copy Share Image
“It was as if the rare joy that had formed in my heart was replaced by a pale shadow threatening to engulf me at… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“THE GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT IS WINNING ALL THE BATTLES THEN LOSING THE WAR” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No cause that was ever worthy was without its turmoil, its trials, its hopelessness. We are not defeated yet.” — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“(He) may have won a battle, but he was about to lose the war.” — Linda Rodríguez McRobbie Copy Share Image
“Or is what remains in me like a defeated army, Fleeing in disarray from victory already won?” — Bonhoeffer Dietrich Copy Share Image
“What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?” — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Even though we fought, like, ninety-four percent of the time, I'm really sad.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“It had been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. (Waterloo 18 June 1815) 'I hope… — Arthur Wellesley Wellington Copy Share Image
“Napoleon built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed. I made my campaigns using rope, and if a… — Arthur Wellesley Wellington Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and various hangers-on all made an appearance. Though our house was in the depths of the mountains, they somehow all managed to get there. They were no fools. They knew we had delicious food and drink to… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, after the war is over, that will be the only way they can turn. Everything else will have been tried, everything else will have failed. And… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy order, which comes out of both drives, and which is another human need I haven't yet fit into my scheme. So both have to be controlled. But in fact,… — Marilyn French Copy Share