If you asked why the post had not come, or why the boat did not sail for England, or why your coffee was cold, or why your boots were not cleaned, or why your window was shut, or why the canary didn't sing,-you would always be sure to be told, "c'est...
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he i...
Kristin hatte ihre Wahl an einem grauen Montagmorgen getroffen. Sie war vielleicht aufgewacht, erschöpft von dem neuen Tag, der noch nicht einmal richtig angebrochen war, hatte aus dem Fenster gesehen und sich entschlossen, dass es nun genug sei. We...
Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the dear prize awarded to the killers of lovers. The epics of war have always and still outnumber the epics of love. For those wh...
How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't care where it is. They can't tell me any different. Money, money is the thing that causes it all. I wouldn't be a bit surprised that the people that sta...
Stopping a war; that is, stopping actual military combat, is not stopping a war in all its factors. During continuous hard strain a human mind can hold up; and it is truly amazing how much it can stand. Day by day, with that war-strain of worry pulli...
This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common national narrative (which happened to be the victors' ...
Corporal Miller: Well, right now I say to hell with the job! I've been on a hundred jobs and not one of them's altered the course of the war! I don't care about the war anymore, I care about Roy! Capt. Keith Mallory: And if Turkey comes into the war ...
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to...
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
