War Quote by George R.R. Martin Download Open image ““He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.”” — George R.R. Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Battlefield Lost Bedchamber Bedchamber Poor Lost Bedchamber Poor Fool War
“No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard… — George S. Patton Jr Copy Share Image
“It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“(He) may have won a battle, but he was about to lose the war.” — Linda Rodríguez McRobbie Copy Share Image
“It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.” — Bruce H. Norton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you don’t win the war. You don’t even win any of the battles. All you have left to celebrate is the victory of… — Johnny Shaw Copy Share Image
“That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.” — Kathy Hepinstall Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can win a war by leaving the battlefield before your army gets killed.” — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Megga couldn’t sing, but she was mad to be kissed. She and Alla played a kissing game sometimes, she confessed, but it wasn’t the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“On the morning after battle the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike. How much can a crown be worth when a crow… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.” — George R.R. Martin 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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
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,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
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.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
