Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, ...

Tom Hanks

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the err...

My Experiences in the World War

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at lea...

Virginia Postrel

P.A. Announcer: Attention. Attention. May I have the camps' attention? This week's movie will be When Willie Comes Marching Home. Uh... The biggest parade of laughs of World War II. All the love, laughs and escapades of the Willies who came marching ...

MASH

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That...

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world tha...

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-...

James Connolly

[...] during one train stop, I watched as another guard with a spirit of empathy, ran out into an apple orchard and picked apples. He carried his jacket like a bag and filled it with apples. The kind German came to our open train window and handed us...

Prisoner of War Number 21860: The World War II Memoirs of Oliver Omanson

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained h...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Former civilians did not anticipate how disoriented they would feel as they lost access to their hobbies and interests while being drilled into a pattern of uniformity and sameness. It felt foreign to them to be told when to wake up, how to dress, wh...

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II

I was raised to face any challenge.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living...

Cordell Hull

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II