A Quote by Aaron Allston

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

Aaron Allston

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Ennui Inside Lethargy Me War

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Aaron Allston
American - Novelist
December 8, 1960 - February 27, 2014

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Fredrik Bajer

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Daniel Berrigan

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

Bernie Sanders

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

George Orwell

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Elie Wiesel

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

Ingmar Bergman

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Thomas Jefferson

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

Otto Schily

Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas.

Sam Seder

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

Ulrich Beck

We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.