Quotes of: World-war-ii Keyword

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

Flash Virus Episode One

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

One less desirable aspect of democracy is that it seems to require serious demonization of the enemy if the nation and public opinion are to be galvanized sufficiently to pay a serious price in blood or treasure at war.

A World Without Islam

His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families w...

John Warner

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily o...

Arthur Henderson

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Diana Gabaldon

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and sub-nuclear world. Physicists then had greater clout than other scientists because the memory of their role in t...

Martin Rees

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

Maus, II: And Here My Troubles Began

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

Orphans of a Loveless God - Volume II: Request

There is but one Morning, that when we took our first Breath; All the others are reminders that we have not yet journeyed into death.

Visions II: The Poetry of Life

Captain Terrell: Sir, I demand... Khan: You are in a position to demand *nothing*. I, on the other hand, am in a position to *grant* nothing.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Scotty: The energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree, so don't give me too many bumps.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Spock: You proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Kirk: Khan! Khan: You still remember, Admiral. I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[after being surrounded by Klingons in a starship simulator] Saavik: Any suggestions, Admiral? Kirk: Prayer, Mr. Saavik. The Klingons don't take prisoners.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Chekov: [to Khan] Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Mr. Butler: Being a black man in America isn't easy. The hunt is on, and you're the prey. All I'm saying is... All I'm saying is... Survive! All right?

Menace II Society

It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible