Quotes of: War-effort Keyword

And what other kind of man would you want leading you into battle?” he says, reading my Noise. “What other kind of man is suitable for war?” A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes monsters of men. “Wrong,” says the...

Monsters of Men

Tion Medon: Greetings, young Jedi. What brings you to our remote sanctuary? Obi-Wan: Unfortunately, the war. Tion Medon: There is no war here unless you've brought it with you. Obi-Wan: With your kind permission, I should like some fuel and to use yo...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember that He will is His own way and in His own time complete what we so poorly attempt. Often we do not a...

The Bell

... people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You...

Eat, Pray, Love

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and ...

The Education of the Stoic

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal ...

Art as a Social System

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying...

The Magnificent Defeat

Myth Number 4: Social Media Is the Shiny New Thing. Two Years from Now, That Bubble Will Burst Yes, it is the shiny new thing. No, two years from now, that bubble will not burst. There is no bubble. What social media represents is an evolution in the...

Social Media ROI: Managing and measuring social media efforts in your organization

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, ...

Robert F. Kennedy

Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how w...

Laurence G. Boldt

This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. —

A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

Changing Planes

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!

Desperate Lands: The War on Terror Through the Eyes of a Special Forces Soldier

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

And the challenge in the next round would be determined by the winner of this test. "Like, what, the DOM-matrix?" ~Tara Reese

Dom Wars: Round Two

3A.02 WAR Expenses for war equipment, Training and peoples recruitment, Be at the cost of hunger and pride, Humanity be charred in this ride. [196] - 3A

Eddies of Life

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq