Quotes of: Warring Keyword

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

All's Fair in Love, War and High School

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.

In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars

You know what, BB? We’ve got dark spots on our souls. We have to live with that. War is not about doing what’s right. War’s about surviving.” Verner aka ‘Jens’ in the novel 'The Informer' by Steen Langstrup

The Informer

Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.

Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor's Journal of the War in Afghanistan

Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo.

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

Slaughterhouse-Five

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

The Magus

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.

The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.

Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture