Quotes of: Gulf-war Keyword

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?" This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

Big Trouble

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Jo Ann Emerson

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living...

Cordell Hull

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

Mel Gibson

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with t...

Nelson Mandela

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.

$3.33

Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

Anansi Boys

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.

The Sandman and the War of Dreams

A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

The Sandman and the War of Dreams

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

Summer Island

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

My War: Killing Time in Iraq

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other. Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

Master of Stupidity

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad