Quotes of: Warring Keyword

Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.

Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves

...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America

I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.

Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope

Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.

Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot ...

Hunger

But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied, gratified; gay-gallant-and-gleeful. But they do not achieve anything acceptable, perceptible; or peaceful.

'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Volume II: Extinction, Annihilation, Resurrection

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first...

Scribbling the Cat

Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hair shimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer. “When are you coming home to me?” She said eloquently.

Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another...

New Seeds of Contemplation

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants

So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

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