Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Deathless

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.

Deathless

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

A Drink Before the War

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Days of Magic, Nights of War

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A Drink Before the War

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.

Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end.

Eternity's Redemption

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

The Eternal War

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.

To End a War

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

A Feast for Crows

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Fugitive Pieces

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

The Forgotten Soldier

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Flashes of Thought

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Gone with the Wind

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

Girl at War

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

Homage to Catalonia

I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used as a vicious weapon in the marital war.

How to Be Good

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

The House of Hades

Make LOVE...Not WAR! Give Our World Peace And Not Despair

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration