Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war.

Afterlife

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Anna Karenina

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Acacia: The War with the Mein

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

I Am a Strange Loop

Why don't you go to bed for a bit, Glory?" suggested Robert. "It's been a hell of a war." It's been a hell of a war, he said. I'll never forget it.

I'll Be Seeing You

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Just Another War Story

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.

Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.

Lizzie After the War

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

Orphan Brigade: The Sim War: Book Two

Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.

Overwhelmed: Winning the War Against Worry

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War

Torn From the Inside Out

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent