Quotes of: Cold-war Keyword

Aim High and Hit the Mark

Bahala Na (Come What May): A World War II Story of Love, Faith, Courage, Determination and Survival

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

Because of Winn-Dixie

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Richard Flanagan

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

The 33 Strategies of War

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich

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

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

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