Quotes of: Gulf-war Keyword

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

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

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

He's lost his colour very far from here, Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

The War Poems

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.

The Water Mage's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Magic and War in Verse

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

The War of the End of the World

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

The War of the Worlds

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Hermann Goering

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Kurt Schrader

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The Art of War

In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Sahir Ludhianvi

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

Ann Druyan

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challen...

Drew Gilpin Faust

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a r...

Maxine Waters

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

Bayard Rustin

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Ishmael Beah

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

Mark Boal