Quotes of: Real-war Keyword

You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. Th...

Love

In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too.

Dan Abnett

This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.

I Am Radar

Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.

Dom Wars: Round Six

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The Book Of Military Quotations

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

The War of Mists

Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.

Walter Isaacson

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Matthew Rhys

He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

I Am Number Four

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a r...

Maxine Waters

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tel...

Bruce Jackson

Once you've played a real video game about war, you don't understand how people can play video games about video games about war.

John Alejandro King

Princess Leia: It only takes one to sound the alarm. Han Solo: Then we'll do it real quiet-like.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime...

Ron Paul

The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusad...

Randolph Bourne

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any wars, nor to have reduced the frequency with which...

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

Real peace is not only the absence of war but the presence of God .

Osunsakin Adewale

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer