Quotes of: World-war-ii Keyword

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II and The Power

David Marcus: Scientists have always been pawns of the military.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[Kirk and McCoy are beaming down to Regula One] Spock: Jim, be careful. McCoy: *We* will!

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

McCoy: [reference to the turbolift] Who's been holding up the damn elevator?

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that des...

1985

Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the dear prize awarded to the killers of lovers. The epics of war have always and still outnumber the epics of love. For those wh...

Patricia Storace

This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common national narrative (which happened to be the victors' ...

George Packer

Corporal Miller: Well, right now I say to hell with the job! I've been on a hundred jobs and not one of them's altered the course of the war! I don't care about the war anymore, I care about Roy! Capt. Keith Mallory: And if Turkey comes into the war ...

The Guns of Navarone

He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

I Am Number Four

Human has no experience at all about living in a peaceful world without war.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

The World of Yesterday

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Bruce Sterling

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

Frank B. Kellogg

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the w...

Ernst Zundel

To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

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

The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was beari...

Martin Jacques

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

Acacia: The War with the Mein

I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)

William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best mo...

Dino De Laurentiis