A Quotes
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“A war is coming and when it does, I will not stand by and watch history repeat itself.”
Source: Tompkin's School: For The Resurrected
“A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .”
“A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.”
“A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?”
“A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.”
“A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.”
“A war is not lost until you consider it lost.”
“A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.”
“A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.”
“A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.”
“A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.”
Source: Precepts and Judgments
“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”
“A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.”
“A war of words will allow more dialogue than what a war with bullets ever will.”
“A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together.”
“A war put off is not a war avoided.”
“A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.”
“A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.”
“A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win — been if some men... go home victorious.”
Source: The Space Race
“A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.”
“A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.”
“A war waits for no one.”
“A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent”
“A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.”
“A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
“A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.”
Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”
Source: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith
“A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.”
“A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!”
“A warm feeing spirals through my chest at the realization of his achievement. My employees are the best at what they do, and I never doubt their abilities.”
Source: My Dark Divine
“A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however.”
Source: Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper
“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After that, during a few days he was in mourning for an intimate part of himself. It surprised him to realize how fond he had been of his teeth. His tongue, a fat sleek seal, used to flop and slide so happily among the familiar rocks, checking the contours of a battered but still secure kingdom, plunging from cave to cove, climbing this jag, nuzzling that notch, finding a shred of sweet seaweed in the same old cleft; but now not a landmark remained, and all there existed was a great dark wound, a terra incognita of gums which dread and disgust forbade one to investigate. And when the plates were thrust in, it was like a poor fossil skull being fitted with the grinning jaws of a perfect stranger.”
Source: Pnin
“A warm heart can heat us even in very low temperatures; a cold heart can frost us even in very high temperatures!”
“A warm house in a cold winter night is another name for paradise!”
“A warm quiet, a gentle quiet; something soft and friendly the might have shared if Angus had gotten over her, or if they had gotten married, but couldn't be sustained the way things were between them now. The comfortable feeling between them burned off like mist with each longing glance Angus took at her, wanting more the way men always wanted more---even, or perhaps especially, men who grew up poor. Angus had spent his whole life wanting, and maybe that's why he kept on wanting Jean-Louise; as a boy he'd never known a full stomach, and as a man he couldn't fee satisfation.”
Source: Children of Promise
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
“A Warm Welcome to New Readers!
Thank you for stopping by.
If you’re navigating grief or loss, I hope my books offer a moment of peace and reflection. Whether you're healing from losing a beloved pet or honoring a departed loved one, I'm honored to walk beside you through words, remembrance, and quiet hope.
Warmly,
Henry
A Sanctuary for Healing and Remembrance”
“A warm winter is better than a cold summer.”
“A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.”
“A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.”
“A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.”
“A warmth spread throughtout Keirah's body, in part from the closeness of Kathel, but mostly because she knew that he had meant Wharick. Kathel hadn't even spoken Wharick's name, but at the very inclination of her mate, Keirah's body had responded.”
Source: Magnificence
“A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.
-Connor Kenway”
Source: Forsaken
“A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)”
Source: So You Want to Be a Wizard
“A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.”
“A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on”
“A warrior accepts the challenges of life in true humility. No matter what his destiny may be, it can never be a cause for discontent, but a living challenge which it is his privilege to surmount.”
Source: Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.”
“A warrior balances solitude and dependence.”