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Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out. — Robin Oliveira

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. — George Orwell

You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war, — Kate Morton

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. — Barney Ross

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war. — Margaret Thatcher

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose — Winston Churchill

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world. — Nick Hirst

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned. — Michael Morpurgo

Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples. — Herta Muller

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is. — Shelby Foote

Before you start a war, you better know what you're fighting for. — The Cab

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. — Kenneth Clark

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Robert M. La Follette

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.
[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961] — John F. Kennedy

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war. — U Thant

Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened. — Osamu Dazai

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission. — Karl Marlantes

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese! — Duke Of Wellington

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. — Paul Fussell

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise. — Jefferson Davis

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. — Steven Pressfield

But by ending the war now, before it truly begins, the Death Star will save more lives than it took. — Claudia Gray

Never diagnosed the enemy before. — Henry V. O'Neil

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side. — Sun Tzu

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. — Seneca The Younger

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time. — Abigail Disney

He estimates that perhaps 250,000 slaves were imported illegally before the Civil War. — Howard Zinn

Before the war. Adults must use this phrase a zillion times a day. — Eva Gray

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise. — Glenway Wescott

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war — Otto Von Bismarck

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started. — Pete Hamill

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. — Aeschylus

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive... — Soraya Lane

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. — Merle Haggard

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. — E.B. White

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. — Philip Caputo

No one is now what they were before the war. There's just no getting any of it back. — Catherynne M Valente

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after. — William Nathaniel Bell

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins. — John Gokongwei

It would be altogether simpler if the rugged man before her wore gray, but instead he would be handsomely attired in Union blue. — A.M. Heath

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy. — Sun Tzu

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it. — Will Rogers

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe. — Sun Tzu

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. — Zach Braff

Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you? — Sinclair Lewis

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. — Stella Blum

When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. — Anthony Horowitz

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war. — William Bennett

I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered. — Patricia Reilly Giff

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men. — Stonewall Jackson

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

We'll stand before the piles of stones that used to be weapons, and we'll build an altar. — Sarah Bessey

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath. — Preston Sprinkle

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. — Noam Chomsky

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired. — Margaret Case Harriman

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II, — Rand Paul

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. — John Le Carre

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder

And in the Final Days, a War will erupt unlike any before. (Dated 8 August 2012) — Alejandro C. Estrada

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. — Guy Sajer

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war, — Kiera Cass

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. — Sun Tzu

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. — Eamon De Valera

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. — Walter Lippmann

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years? — Sara Sheridan

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting. — Sun Tzu

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets. — Tupac Shakur

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128 — Donna Tartt

I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo. — Celine Buckens

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. — Betty Dodson

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went. — Ted Koppel

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended. — Francis Schaeffer

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer

Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began. — Margo Kingston

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends. — Julian Assange

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. — Dan Brown

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor. — Cary Fukunaga

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about. — Ulysses S. Grant

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. — E. Jean Carroll

Anyway, there were more after the war than before. — Hutton Gibson

I answered the call to heal before I answered the call of duty to my country. My job is to help and heal, not to destroy. — Jesseca Wheaton