Quotes of: Wars Keyword

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Home to Holly Springs

I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

The Human War

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

Holy war

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.

Halo: The Thursday War

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

The Invisible Hands - Part 1: Gambit

Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup

The Informer

Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

Jesus the Christ

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

Johnny Got His Gun

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Just Kids

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

The Realms of the Gods

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

A Rumor Of War

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

Saga, Volume 1

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation