Best gone & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.”

Needs War Today Remember Fighting Behinds Enemy Gone Sacrifice Hatred Terror Flags Extremism War On Terror

Author:Bill Shuster

“Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.”

People Has Beens War Suffering Millions Gone Involved Spokes Sympathy Limerick Fortnight

Author:Eamon de Valera

“I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.”

World Book War Kids Age Today Remember Father My Own Gone Army Compare War Of The Worlds Officers Catastrophe Grandchildren Bombarded Bombarded By Army Officers

Author:Lois Lowry

“Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.”

World Mind Two War Pay Gone Air Greatness Mets Praise Pursuit Hills Shock Everlasting Lofty Two Worlds Bards

Author:Philip James Bailey

“Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.”

People Mind War Names Stars Effort Gone Rights Cry Immortality Motto War Cry

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.”

Firsts War Law Nations Gone Rights International Violation Interference International Law

Book:Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

“Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy.”

War Struggle Gone Rights Generations Currents Civil Rights Vietnam Vietnam War Efficacy Current Generation Anti Vietnam War

Author:Paul Solman

“Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.”

War Done Suffering Hurt Gone Taken Betrayal Revenge Mood Treated Prisoner Traitor Collaborators

Author:Diet Eman

“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”

War Enough Problem Artist Stuff Gone Forever Glory Paint Technique Impression Visuals Impressionism

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.”

War Facts Class Break Gone Economic Conflict Benefits Spring Connections Tendencies Barriers Horizon Breaking Down Intercourse

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.”

Men World Way War Enough Care Young Winning Numbers Gone Return Men And Women Soldier Harm Obligation Secure Young Man Shade Troops Solemn Fudge

Author:Barack Obama

“Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.”

Ifs Way War Ends Certain Fighting Gone Victory Gains Forgotten Objectives Remove Obstruction

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.”

Needs Looks War Ends Country Political Social Causes Gone Stage Involved Essentials Majors Unions Defeat Curious Britain Stability Peculiar British History

Author:Linda Colley

“The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.”

People War Shows Lasts Values Challenges Memories History Gone Sorrow Ordinary Endure Realization Civil War Bitterness Worn Veteran Ordinary People American Civil War

Author:Bruce Catton

“10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?”

World War Three Chance Gone Television Bed War Of The Worlds

Author:Alan Coren

“There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fair; And all that had sense to reason knew That bloody drama must be gone through. Some sat and watched how the action veered-- Waited, profited, trembled, cheered-- We saw not clearly nor understood, But yielding ourselves to the masterhand, Each in his part as best he could, We played it through as the author planned.”

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Author:Alan Seeger

“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.”

“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”

“I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.”

World War Stuff Gone Hero War Of The Worlds World War Ii Examination Astronaut

Author:Tom Hanks

“We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.”

Ifs Knows World Way Stills War States Spirit Poor History Gone Tomorrow Europe Madness Surprise War Of The Worlds Engines World War Ii Flags World War I Breeze Distracted Streaming Demented

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.”

People Feels Wells War Country Beautiful Reading Lost Gone Terrible Gratitude Creatures Rivers Nostalgia Forests Lap Lost Time

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'”

War Given Stars Acting Gone Fans Havens Given Up Gone Away

Author:Daniel Logan

“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.”

Believe Humans War Soul I Believe Gone Human Nature Remains Soldier I Believe In My Soul Occupation Cooperation Umpires Arbitration

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.”

Ifs World Trying Long War Order Heaven Gone Angel Golden Aviation Cosmic Zeppelins Oval Airpower

Author:John Milton

“When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.”

Thinking Men World Mind Kind War Real Ends Kids Father Stuff My Own Watches Gone Taken Stuck War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I My Best Friend Cleveland Real Stuff

Author:Wes Craven

“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.”

People Ifs Mind War Would Be Today Lying Cities Gone Defense Destroyed Ruins Features Impossibility Injured Transportation Sanitation Preventive War

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.”

Ifs Should Firsts War Fighting Effort Gone Forever Air Sea Involved Elements Defense Warfare

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.”

World Firsts Wells War Millions Gone Forever Air Sea Lessons Europe Defense War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Warfare Veteran Pacific American Veterans

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.”

War Running School Girl Boys Gone Clothes Towns Forgotten Medical Russia Running Away Volunteer Examination Great War Formality

Book:Russia in 1916

Source: Russia in 1916

“We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.”

War States Gone Absolutes Nationalism Length Dictatorship Cult Militant Glorification Totalitarian State

Author:Arthur Henderson

“My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.”

World Life Humans Wells War Prayer Animal Gone Realization War Of The Worlds Sanctity World War One Sanctity Of Life

Author:Christopher Morley

“I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.”

Ifs Men World Writing Littles War Young Fiction Known Gone Effects Young Man Writing Fiction Iliad

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.”

Thinking Different War Light Wish Gone Understood Vietnam

Author:Oliver Stone

“[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.”

War Country Home Gone Independence Saving Legends

Author:Richard Brookhiser

“My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.”

People War Desire Gone Mad Horrible Civil War Majesty Satanic

Author:Sam Houston

“When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."”

War Novel Gone Imagine Research Historical Civil War Accurate Imagine That Entitled Biographies Supposition Historical Novels

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.”

“Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've ever gone to, I've also seen people being extraordinary in a good sense. It's not just a black and white extreme situation that pushes people to extremes and they do crazy bad stuff. You also see crazy brave stuff. You see humanity in a different light.”

People Different War Hard Light Humanity Stuff Black White Situation Gone Crazy Terrible Conflict Brave Extraordinary Ugly Extremes Black And White Good Sense Bad Stuff

Author:Shaul Schwarz

“Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.”

Humans Has Beens Stills Different War Political Gone Land Cost Iraq Outcomes Occupation Routes Hostile Invasion Barren Extending

Author:George H. W. Bush

“You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!”

Knows Men War Country Choices President Gone One Man Other Countries Lied Another Man Ceilings Warlords War Time

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.”

“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”

War Age Friendship Gone Dying Aging Engaged Sentimental Seventies Battlefields

Author:St. Jerome

“When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.”

Firsts War Country Wanted School President Gone Finished Graduates Graduate School Gulf War

Author:Lily King

“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”

War Sides Term Religious Dark Gone Changed Shadow Lifetime Casts Communism Fundamentalist Framed Fundamentalist Religion

Author:Zachary Lazar

“I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.”

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Author:Fetty Wap

“And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.”

Thinking Feels Important War Character Feelings Kids Found Stars Parent Gone Embrace Familiar Brands Brand New Retro

Author:J. J. Abrams

“We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been a bloody, trying, wasteful, but eventually positive struggle.”

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Author:Michael Scheuer

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