Quotes of: Korean-war Keyword

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it." -- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Just ask..

World War II London Blitz Diary, Volume 1

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

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

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

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

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

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

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

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

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.

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

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

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

I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)

William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

What Would Pacifists Have Done about Hitler? a Discussion of War, Dictators and Pacifism

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them?

The War of the End of the World

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Thomas Sowell

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best mo...

Dino De Laurentiis

I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

Ralph Brown

'Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of ...

Seth Green

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surren...

Terry Jones

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace buil...

Ludwig von Mises

Toward the end of the Second World War, a new consciousness arose amongst the public and policy makers of the Western World. After ten years of crippling economic depression and another five at war, the public demanded something new from their disint...

Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing...

Richard Holbrooke