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“Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.”

Years War Sometimes Jobs Guy Situation Four Dangerous Serious Flower Accidents Injury Four Years Explosions Stride Technicians

Author:Vic Morrow

“He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'”

Firsts Wells Said Ideas War States Three Courses Millions Support Four Standing Constant Jew Hopefully Enterprise Agreement Drs Beaten Palestine Cradle Zionist

Author:Chaim Weizmann

“Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.”

“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.”

World Years Has Beens War Done Kids Bits Five Four Dad Years Ago My Dad Beach War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I Remembrance D Day

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.”

Years War Country States Four Economic Policy Eight Campaigns Four Years Governors Secretary Attorney Gin Economic Policy Lieutenants

Author:Don Siegelman

“The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.”

War Hard Cases Four Worst Apocalypse Scenarios Famine Recessions Landing 1930s Pestilence Horsemen Four Horsemen Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Author:Kenneth S. Deffeyes

“It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.”

Should Two War Three Mistake Four March Wrong Direction

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.”

War Greater Four Mouths All Things Horse South Puff

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.”

“Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.”

“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.”

Ifs Years Littles Said Stills War Done Stories Five Four Wife Type Couple One Day Pages Humorous Army My Wife Finished Five Years If I Could Short Story Operators

Author:Carl Reiner

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

Knows Has Beens Book War Might Three Courses Economy Four Written Masters Hero Pages Supreme Data Might Have Been My Hero Borges

Author:Peter Greenaway

“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”

Years War Three Four Events Battle Thousand Pages Hundred Decided Instance Devoted Volume Routes Describing Participants Crusades

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.”

People Years Stills War Ends Left Realizing Four France Meat Four Years Tickets Apprenticeship Plentiful

Author:Jacques Pepin

“How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.”

“Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.”

War Guy Stars Four Storm War Movie Star Wars Movie

Author:Chris Spielman

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.”

“In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.”

“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”

Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

“An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.”

Two War Young Morning Four Player Worst Cost Relation Presses Valuable Finished Newspapers Locals Evening Innocence Engaged Arrogance Voting Awards Perpetual Boston Mills Circulation Poisonous

Author:George Will

“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”

Ifs War Humor Wanted Funny Four Pages Bored

Author:Lewis Black

“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.”

Thinking World War Mother Courses Father Sides Loss Forget Five Four Brother Majors My Family Died Russia War Of The Worlds Second World War Great Loss

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.”

World Years War Country Five Four Progress Car Design War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I New Car

Author:Ross Perot

“Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.”

Ifs World Years Mind Humans War Suffering Clear Four Imagine Civilization Cost International Realization War Of The Worlds Anarchy Abandoned Four Years Human Suffering

Author:Arthur Henderson

“We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.”

World Years War Suffering Humanity Forever Four War Of The Worlds Four Years Scourge

Author:Arthur Henderson

“The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.”

Way Important War School Stars Imagination Vision Four Journey Taught Nightmare Episodes Jumping Continuity Chronology

Author:Simon Schama

“Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.”

Knows War Four Solve Covered

Author:Asne Seierstad

“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.”

Trying Believe Kind Made War Problem Artist Three Father Speak I Believe Parent Boys Four Our Lives Historical Trauma Spokes Survivor Hiding Holocaust

Author:Christian Boltanski

“We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.”

War Chance Four Danger Elements Climate Uncertainty Exertion Four Elements

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.”

Way War America Sex Stuff Four Drug Horse Moved Heavy Dropping Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:John Lennon

“In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.”

Men Years War Ends Country States President Four Seeing Vote Election Slave Democrat Candidates Four Years Pretext Secession

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.”

Knows Kind Stills War Sex Pay Pieces Four Week Shapes Six Chess Civil War Mail One Piece

Author:Bill Engvall

“Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?”

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Author:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.”

War Matter Philosophy Fighting Three Four Cost Consequence Europe Slavery Historical Slave Notion Jew Flying Tyranny Genocide Trusted Bowls Super Bowl No War

Author:Bill Whittle

“We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.”

Years War Country Used Three Four Groups Serious Losing Beats Terrorist Used To Be Germany Japan Four Years Nazi Pearls Harbors Fascists Phony Nazi Germany Terrorist Groups

Author:Newt Gingrich