Quotes of: Vietnam-war Keyword

Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land. Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Slaughterhouse-Five

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Selected Poems

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Special Forces - Soldiers

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

A Storm of Swords

When the war comes, you’ll find me on the front line, with some crayons, coloring outside the lines.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Stark's War

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

Tigerman

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten.

Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

The Pieces We Keep

I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.

The Pull

Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

Playing with Matches

Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.

Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.

Tremor

Is it any wonder that war is senseless? It’s started by politicians. As a class, politicians have no class, and even less sense.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

The Thirty Years War

The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!

That's War

What do you think? Overkill? I don't believe there is any such thing. But in this case, 'yes, overkill.' -Sergeant Schlock & Petey

The Teraport Wars

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.

The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension