“In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.” MenYearsWarFatherDifficultPoorSoldierMakersFurniturePayment Author:Trevor Nunn
“It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.” MenWarDifficultQualityOne ManExceptional Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.” PeopleThinkingArtWarWholeRealitySeemsLyingDifficultSecretAdversaries Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds.” KnowsNeedsKindWarEarthFacesNamesDifficultLordTroubleSorrowHundredNeighborGuidanceHeartacheOur TimeProphetDistressLegion Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.” YearsLongStillsWarStatesGovernmentDifficultEffortConflictContraryOutcomesCivil WarAnarchySpinningValiantSpinning Out Of Control Author:Anthony Zinni
“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.” PeopleIfsThinkingMayLittlesWarEndsWould BeKidsTogetherValuesNationsDifficultEconomyCenturyStupidPositionParticularAmountMassUglyLandscapeRealisingProsperousRestoration Author:Kim Stanley Robinson
“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.” WayMadeStillsWarUseTodayPastFightingDifficultCommonSeaMethodCommon SenseShipsPermanentNavyInfrastructureSea Power Author:Nicholas Rodger
“Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.” ThinkingWantLooksWarWinningDifficultGoalRecordsFootballReadyDefeatFocusedObjectivesManagersSoccerChairmanHaircutsConsecutive Author:Jose Mourinho
“The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.” ImportantWarCharacterLightRememberStarsDifficultDarkPathBuddhismImportant ThingsFictional Character Author:Frederick Lenz
“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” Has BeensWarLostDifficultBattleProveCampaignsLogistics Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.” MadeWarDifficultDirectorsLifestyleBitterHardshipDifficult Life Author:Bahman Ghobadi
“By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.” WorldWayLittlesWarWholeDifficultSituationKnownChangedProudVictoryRedTestsArmyHillsHeightWar Of The WorldsBerlinFascistsSecond World WarDensSeizingMotherlandRed ArmyStalingrad Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky
“I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.” ThinkingWarAbleDifficultPolicyPerspectiveBalanced Author:Michael Hastings
“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.” WarDifficultNaturalRiskDangerousDisasterViolentZoneProtestNatural DisasterWar Zones Author:Kate Adie
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.” MenWayLifeWarMomentsEnergyDifficultHistoryDoubtMilitaryDangerDutyDifficultyAngerAdversitySalvationCurrentsAidsPhasesUncertainHistoricBattlefieldsAscent Book:Report to Greco Source: Report to Greco
“It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.” PeopleWayHumansWarHardCharacterStoriesDifficultEmotionalGainsWeightCampsVehicleFar AwayFrustratedReportersRefugeeFrustratingCoveringCountrysideRefugee Camps Author:Rick Rowley
“What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.” MenWritingWellsMayTwoWarCharacterNationsDifficultAnswersRecordsTypeCuriousAlliesCowardiceEnteringInabilityAlarmsDifficult ThingsIncompetenceGreat WarHereditaryAnglo SaxonSusceptibilitySonatas Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.” MayWarEndsEnoughHandsEasyDifficultWillingArmsLaysCowardCommencementTermination Author:Sallust
“Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.” ShouldWarStatesDifficultMilitaryCrimeProveResourcesIsraelCampaignsTerroristFundMidstVolunteerCiviliansOrganisationDiplomaticWar CrimesAllegationsNational Service Author:Uri Orbach
“Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.” WayWellsIdeasWarMatterDoneEvilDifficultReligiousTheoryArgumentKillingIrelandRelativityNorthern IrelandTheories Of Relativity Author:Quentin Crisp
“Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.” PeopleMayWarDifficultSinPrayingBeatsForgivingForgive MeForgive Yourself Author:Alexander Payne
“Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.” PeopleThinkingWarDifficultTermAspectFinancialIraqProbabilityIraq War Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.” MenFirstsWarRunningGamesSportsDifficultRealizingFootballBaseballRaisedSoldierUmpiresFootball GameBaseball GamesReferee Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.” ThinkingWayHumansMeanDoeWarDifficultUnderstandingHuman BeingsViolenceActiveObligationResistanceTemptationAggressiveMistakenInjuredNon ViolenceVigilancePrerogative Author:Judith Butler