Quotes of: Wars Keyword

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

The Cost of Discipleship

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

A Coney Island of the Mind

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

Cold Mountain

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, ‘Shit, it’s raining!

Cold Mountain

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.

The Chocolate War

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.

The Cold War

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

The Candy Shop War

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

The Drowned Cities

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Dominion

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

Dominion

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

Deathless

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Deathless

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.

Deathless

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

A Drink Before the War

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Days of Magic, Nights of War

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A Drink Before the War