Quotes of: Nuclear-war Keyword

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Cloud Atlas

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

Nas

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

Rick Atkinson

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happen...

Alicia Witt

My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, ...

Bonnie Bassler

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Isabel Allende

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, r...

Laura Carmichael

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

Jonathan Winters

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

The 33 Strategies of War

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

The 50th Law

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

All the Light We Cannot See

It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled.

All the Light We Cannot See

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

The Heretic

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

The Heroes

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Home to Holly Springs

I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

The Human War