Quotes of: Korean-war Keyword

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Volume II: Extinction, Annihilation, Resurrection

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first...

Scribbling the Cat

Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hair shimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer. “When are you coming home to me?” She said eloquently.

Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another...

New Seeds of Contemplation

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants

So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.

Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

The Things They Carried

Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume what they’re carrying, and then … if I don’t get them more, if I don’t find them more … they die.

Orphan Brigade: The Sim War: Book Two

Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.

Obama's Wars

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

Poems 1913-1956

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialis...

The Revolution Betrayed

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for another

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

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

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

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

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

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

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

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

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