Quotes of: Gulf-war Keyword

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

War and Peace

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

War and Peace

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

War and Peace

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.

War and Peace

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

War and Peace

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

War and Peace

Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

War and Peace

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

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

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