World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the… — Helen Fisher
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active… — Geoff Mulgan
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full… — Joan Bauer
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were… — Kurt Vonnegut
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the… — Philip K. Dick
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World… — Lemmy Kilmister
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White'… — Daniel Handler
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw
The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since… — Grant Morrison
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words… — Robert Hughes
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the… — Ernest Hemingway
Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell… — Jodi Picoult
How lovely." The old lady sighed. "An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a job, which made… — Susan Mallery
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching… — Richard Brautigan
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the… — Wendell Berry
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II. — Charles Bukowski
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third… — Kurt Vonnegut
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North… — David Nicholls
I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon....… — Russell T Davies
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of… — Richard Powers
shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so — Rachel Caine

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