Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.

The White Queen

But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

The Wind Rises

When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.

War of the Shadows

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Watchmen

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

The Wednesday Wars

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

What It is Like to Go to War

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

Wizards at War

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

The World of Yesterday

I bowl with cannonballs, because this is war, 1863 style. I could probably bowl a perfect 300 game using only half the deaths at Gettysburg.

Xazaqazax

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The Yellow Birds

War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Woody Harrelson

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

Knute Nelson

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

Ralph Peters

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

The Fallen

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.

The Art of War

Quão lamentável é arriscar tudo em um único combate, negligenciando a estratégia vitoriosa, e fazer com que o destino de tuas armas dependa de uma única batalha!

The Art of War

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

The Art of War

Move not unless you see an advantage;  use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

The Art of War