Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

The Candy Shop War

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

The Drowned Cities

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Dominion

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

Dominion

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

Deathless

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Deathless

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.

Deathless

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

A Drink Before the War

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Days of Magic, Nights of War

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A Drink Before the War

A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Ender in Exile

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.

Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end.

Eternity's Redemption

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

The Eternal War

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.

To End a War

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Fahrenheit 451

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

A Feast for Crows

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Fugitive Pieces

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

The Forgotten Soldier

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Flashes of Thought