War After Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

• War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. — Samuel B. Pettengill
• War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and… — Lisa Simeone
• After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. — Loudon Wainwright III
• History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. — Sarah Vowell
• [democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the… — David Frum
• The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. — Gideon Raff
• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain… — Martha Gellhorn
• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry… — Walter Dean Myers
• There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so… — Kurt Vonnegut
• Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History… — Sarah Vowell
• There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
• I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew,… — Katherine Applegate
• It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way… — Elizabeth Kostova
• One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. — Kurt Vonnegut
• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give… — W. Averell Harriman
• As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all. — Megyn Kelly

Who Wrote These War After Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 16 War After Quotes as follows:

• 2 War After Quotes by Sarah Vowell
• 2 War After Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
• 1 War After Quote by Samuel B. Pettengill
• 1 War After Quote by Lisa Simeone
• 1 War After Quote by Loudon Wainwright III
• 1 War After Quote by David Frum
• 1 War After Quote by Gideon Raff
• 1 War After Quote by Martha Gellhorn
• 1 War After Quote by Walter Dean Myers
• 1 War After Quote by John Wyndham
• 1 War After Quote by Katherine Applegate
• 1 War After Quote by Elizabeth Kostova
• 1 War After Quote by W. Averell Harriman
• 1 War After Quote by Megyn Kelly