Quotes of: Korean-war Keyword

Mmm," said Ares, without turning his head. "This war on terror isn't producing enough casualties. Bringing in Iran is the obvious choice, but I don't think they've got enough fire power yet. I wonder if I could somehow antagonize Japan." ... "There's...

Gods Behaving Badly

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I was conscripted during the war and even made to do coolie labor. The sneakers I now wear when I work in the fields are the ones the Army issued me. That was the first time in my life I had put such things on my feet, but they were surprisingly comf...

The Setting Sun

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly ...

Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

No weekends for the gods now. Wars flicker, earth licks its open sores, fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chance assassinations, no advance. Only man thinning out his own kind sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind swipe of the pruner and his kni...

Robert Lowell

[first title card] Title Card/Crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Title Card/Crawl: War. The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless Sith Lord, Count Dooku. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere. In a stunning...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

CIA Director McCone: The law says we've got to turn her over. William Stryker Sr.: The law applies to human beings. The same laws don't apply to mutants. They're too dangerous. In times like this, security is important than liberty. There is a war co...

X-Men: First Class

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

Jack Adams

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perf...

Ends and Means

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

Goliath

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. Excerpt From: Sunzi. “The Art of War.” iBooks. This material may be protected by cop...

The Art of War

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Brethren: A Gripping Tale of Counter Espionage

A brick could be used to sell war to the peacemongers. The trick is to sell war cheap, because the real profit is in the renewals and extending the service as long as possible.


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