Like War Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
— Red Auerbach
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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill
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Chess is like war on a board
— Bobby Fischer
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
— Adrienne Rich
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the…
— Hans Blix
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
— William Kittredge
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Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.
— Rinus Michels
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Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.
— Sari Nusseibeh
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Advertising is much like war, minus the venom
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
— George Clooney
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I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
— Salman Rushdie
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Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding…
— Lucy Ellmann
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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
— Amelia Earhart
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Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary…
— Daryn Kagan
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
— H. L. Mencken
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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing…
— Haruki Murakami
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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
— Sharon Stone
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
— Neil Young
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It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we…
— Sharon Creech
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