Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Scott Anderson

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James A. Baldwin

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

Joe Biden

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

Eve Merriam

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

Evan Thomas

When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

George Ayittey

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

Charles Darwin

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

Cory Doctorow

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Homer

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

Hal Newhouser

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Howard Zinn

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

Elliott Abrams

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Eduardo Galeano

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Benjamin Rush

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.

Bill Watterson

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

George Orwell

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Jeannette Rankin

[Politicans] are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms.

Jon Stewart

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

Daniel Logan

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Doris Lessing