Quotes of: Great-war Keyword

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

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

Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites

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

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

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

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

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

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and m...

The Third Reich At War

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.

The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000