War Quotes - Page 348

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

The difference between a regular person and a warrior is not that you're not afraid. Hell, I was afraid. I don't want to go into combat with anybody who is not afraid because it's healthy to have fear. But what makes a warrior is the guy who can control that fear, channel it, and actually use it as a weapon.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example everlasting.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.