Top 1200 War Of The Worlds Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

Mesut Ozil made me the worlds best striker

Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Egypt really is one of the worlds greatest open-air museums.

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.

The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.

I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God

I really am a fan of combining worlds in my own life.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

I love building out the worlds of my fiction with fictional books.

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my feelings directly because I cannot avoid the war. It's something in my soul, in my blood.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I think me and Macklemore exist in two different worlds.

Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story.

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.