War Quotes - Page 371

For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

Physical training is mental warfare!

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

...oneness is the secret to everything.

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.