Quotes of: First-world-war Keyword

Narrator: [voice-over] It is well to dream of glorious war in a snug armchair at home, but it is a very different thing to see it first hand. And after the death of his friend, Barry's thoughts turned from those of military glory to those of finding ...

Barry Lyndon

My name is Ferrum. I was the first, born of the forges, when mankind first began to experiment with iron. I rose from their imagination, from their ambition to conquer the world with a metal that could slice through bronze like paper. I was there whe...

The Iron King

[first lines] Dr. Schreber: [voiceover] First there was darkness. Then came the strangers. They were a race as old as time itself. They had mastered the ultimate technology. The ability to alter physical reality by will alone. They called this abilit...

Dark City

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

John Henrik Clarke

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving ...

Acacia: The War with the Mein

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the th...

Just Another War Story

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into...

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

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves Magistrate: You do? Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household ...

Lysistrata

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

The Emperor: [to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years. [Senate fills w...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

[first lines] [R2-D2 bleeps] Anakin Skywalker: Lock on to him R2. [R2-D2 responds with more bleeping] Anakin Skywalker: Master, General Grievous's ship is directly ahead. The one crawling with Vulture droids. Obi-Wan: Oh, I see it. Oh, this is going ...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

A Clash of Kings

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

The 5th Wave

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

The Art of War

I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.

Richard Coyle

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

John Doolittle

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Alexander Cockburn