Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

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

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

The Polysyllabic Spree

You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.

Tamar

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

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

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