Best Wartime Sayings
66 Wartime quotes by 60 unique authors
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'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime,…
— Grace Slick
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Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine.…
— Robert Winston
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
— Abraham Lincoln
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun…
— Milan Kundera
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My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much…
— Jay-Z
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...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders…
— Kristin Cashore
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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled,…
— Linda Grant
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I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa…
— Laura Carmichael
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A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
— Ben Horowitz
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where…
— J. G. Ballard
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The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels…
— Paul Di Filippo
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The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
— Francis Biddle
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The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching…
— Wendell Willkie
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