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I'm waging war, love. And the only way to win this kind of war is to make you want to lose. — Lisa Kleypas

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

I just want to keep you safe.
I smile. Americans can be so naive. — Kristin Hannah

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again. — Samantha Smith

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops. — Joseph Stilwell

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. — Barry McCaffrey

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy. — Jim Gaffigan

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic. — Natan Sharansky

Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive. — Shannon A. Thompson

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. — William Halsey

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them. — Kevin O'Leary

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. — Ayn Rand

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it. — James Longstreet

I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!"
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me. — Dennis Rodman

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. — Andy Rooney

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. — Gene Simmons

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully. — Abraham Lincoln

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. — Frank Gehry

Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war. — J.B. Salsbury

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. — Edward S. Herman

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. — William Westmoreland

What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed! — Hunter S. Thompson

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more. — Edward Grey

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much. — Arsene Wenger

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. — Frederic Raphael

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice. — Elizabeth Berg

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare. — Rudy Giuliani

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens. — Walter Dean Myers

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas. — Craig Ferguson

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. — Donald Rumsfeld

It is the untold story of this war and it is the story of every war ever fought. Greedy men seeing someone weaker with something they want. — C.C. Humphreys

Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio — Miles Cameron

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

I didn't want to smile and say thanks. Didn't want to pretend I'd done anything except survive — Kevin Powers

People always want to live, even during wartime. You'll learn a lot from living through a war...There is no beast worse than man. — Svetlana Alexievich

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women. — Lindsey Graham

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go. — Margaret Thatcher

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. — Isaac Asimov

If you want peace, prepare for the war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier. — Phil Klay

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation — Saladin

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today? — Joseph Goebbels

War is over ... If you want it. — John Lennon

NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth. — Jenifer Mohammed

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ... — William Graham Sumner

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. — Shannon L. Alder

If you want peace, prepare for war — Courtney Allison Moulton

War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality. — J.G. Farrell

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first. — Brian Tracy

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly. — Miyamoto Musashi

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this. — John Kasich

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia." — Carrie Fisher

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake. — Corinne Maier

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war. — Emil Ludwig

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired. — Sydney Biddle Barrows

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped. — Curtis LeMay

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack? — Peter Sellers

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. — Frederic C. Howe

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do. — Tonya Hurley

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud. — Arlo Guthrie

I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else — Joe Abercrombie

The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When — Adam Smith

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it. — John Frederick Maurice

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. — Debasish Mridha

If you want peace, understand war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. — Sun Tzu

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out. — Ruta Sepetys

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. — George W. Bush

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens. — Yoko Ono

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. — Phil Klay

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war — Pope Francis

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war. — Barack Obama

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. — Nikita Khrushchev

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT! — Widad Akreyi

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! — Nguyen Van Thieu

no one asks poor people if they want war. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal. — Patch Adams

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. — Elias Canetti

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running. — Warsan Shire