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You can never make peace with grief, sweetie. You just work out a way to live with the war grief wages in your heart. — Brooke Morgan

Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it. — Serzh Sargsyan

Hyacinth, we all have our limits. I can't save the world. I can't stop this war. Maybe, just maybe, I can communicate a few things through art. — Kate Elliott

Reminding her that just because you lose a few battles doesn't mean you'll lose the whole war. — J.M. Darhower

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful. — Ben Salmon

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way. — Patrick Ness

Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation. — James S.A. Corey

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. — Michael Gove

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back — Lee Benson

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind. — Jed Babbin

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. — David Mitchell

I know you're used to blood, my Queen, but sometimes sex can be just as sweet a magic" - Hex, Love and War by A.N. Meade — A.N. Meade

My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.
Permanently. — Brandon Sanderson

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. — Thomas Paine

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. — Stefan Molyneux

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest. — Rick Atkinson

War is just a damn nuisance. — Mark Hanna

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution. — A.J. Darkholme

I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn't just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite. — Angela Richardson

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. — Merrill McPeak

The two fingered peace sign always fascinated me, because just in a turn of the hand it turns into war. — Me

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension. — Kesha

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind. — S.M. Stirling

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. — Sun Tzu

War is not just a victory or loss ... People die. — Maya Lin

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. — Roseanne Barr

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid? — Gerald R. Ford

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win. — Lawrence Lessig

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up. — Mickey Rourke

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think. — Craig Ferguson

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field — Joe Abercrombie

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there. — Erma Bombeck

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says. — Junot Diaz

This was not a just war after all - it was just a war: yet another exercise in consecrated barbarity and sanctified slaughter. — James K. Morrow

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war. — John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — A.J.P. Taylor

It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play with my heart. — Jeremy Shockey

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. — Myles Standish

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees. — Alfred Capus

On bad days you wonder, 'Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife? — David Mitchell

An unjust peace is better than a just war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil. — Allen West

I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About. — J.D. Salinger

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war. — Mike Hoffman

Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon. — Buddy Wakefield

Look at you in war ... There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war. — Mark Twain

I love you, Callie. The war is over, but" - He smiled, a crooked, rueful, tender smile - "my life is just beginning," he told her. — Heather Graham

War is just an effect, not a cause. — Marianne Williamson

Don't blind yourself, demon. He fought for the same cause, the
same war. It was just a different battle. - Jenna Jenson — J.L. Sheppard

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out. — Norman Mailer

Just beyond the edges of our little circle of sunshine, a ferocious war was going on. — Haruki Murakami

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order. — Sun Tzu

Juliette, love," he says to me, still holding my eyes. "You have just started a war. — Tahereh Mafi

It's a beautiful war, baby." He dipped so close, the tips of our noses brushed but his eyes never left mine. "And I ... just ... won. — Kristen Ashley

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace. — Theodore Roosevelt

Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun. — Chris Kyle

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack. — Dana Gould

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans. — Phil Klay

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too. — Patty Hearst

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. — William Shakespeare

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred ... is Christ's servant ... — Bernard Cornwell

War's a funny thing. Some men go off and come home again just fine. But there's some that come home and never do come back. — Victoria Wilcox

many a medal awarded in any war represents just the shade of difference which separates a commendation from a court martial. — Charles Lockwood

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. — Michael Kazin

I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle. — Kevin Powers

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. — Francis Bacon

We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word - war. — P.J. Whittlesea

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury. — Lee Myung-bak

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead? — Elizabeth Berg

Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more — Ishmael Beah

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. — M.I.A.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks? — Lowkey

War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. — Ann Rinaldi

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. — Cory Booker

It's a sobering thing, to see firsthand soldiers just home from war. — Tucker Elliot

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse. — Sara Novic

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness. — Katy Perry

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway,

War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler

What, did he think I was just going to melt into his arms? Start a tragic and dramatic tale of star-crossed lovers on a war-torn planet? — Amie Kaufman

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned. — Sylvester Stallone

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did. — Forrest Bird

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson? — A.J. Muste

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. — Rosamunde Pilcher

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. — Teresa R. Funke

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. — Pope John Paul II

In other words, perhaps it is time to admit that the War on Terror is not just a stupid war. It is a war designed to make us stupid. How — Moustafa Bayoumi

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war. — Muhammad Ali

See the fish ... Just like war. War swims along, sees food, contracts. A moment later - Earth is gone. — Ray Bradbury

Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table. — Colleen Hoover

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match. — Boris Becker

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed. — Robert Cray

There's just nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer. — Randall Wallace

Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that ... — Munia Khan

The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war. — Aleksandar Hemon