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It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. — Charles Darwin

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

This tug-of-war between wanting her, and just wanting her gone. — Amie Kaufman

Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'. — Maureen Daly

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong. — Howard Dean

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid. — Michael Walzer

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride. — Lana Del Rey

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

Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one. — Max Brooks

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

I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors. — Patricia Riggen

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction. — Theodore C. Sorensen

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

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body — Karl Marlantes

We must remember that our fight continues. Our rebellion is over. But the war ... the war is just beginning. - ADMIRAL ACKBAR — Chuck Wendig

War is just a damn nuisance. — Mark Hanna

We're eyeball to eyeball ... and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk

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

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war. — Emily Robison

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights. — Ronald Reagan

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. — Joan Rivers

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

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish? — Don Feder

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

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just. — Mao Zedong

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. — Sun Tzu

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

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ... — Fannie Hurst

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

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

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry Kissinger

And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever. — Kevin Powers

One makes war to win, not because it's just. — Michel Foucault

When you come back - and you will come back - I'm gonna fuck you, soldier, like you just came home from war. — Robert Swartwood

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary. — Edmund Burke

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him. — George S. Patton

No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities. — Walter Wink

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. — Christiane Amanpour

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested. — Daniel Rodriguez

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders. — Derrick Wolf

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

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California. — Douglas MacArthur

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon. — John Brandon

I'm just giving advice. — Yunosuke Yoshinaga

Mindful consumption is the way out of our difficulties, not just our personal difficulties, but also the way out of war, poverty, and climate crisis. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. — Omar N. Bradley

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

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker. — Joseph Hooker

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

They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting. — Mike Millar

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca.

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

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you. — Debasish Mridha

In her head is war
All the time just war
I put her to bed
I bring peace to the world — Darnell Lamont Walker

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions — Adolf Hitler

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

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

Unavailable wars are always just. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No war can ever be just air. — Helen Macdonald

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

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans. — Karl Marlantes

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

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

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

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

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war. — Jonathan Demme

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

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. — Michael Poeltl

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything. — Giulio Andreotti

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit. — Douglas Southall Freeman

The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II. — John Allen Paulos

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is
it'll drive you to use drugs. — Jim Hightower

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how. — Terry Goodkind

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war. — Charles James Fox

At this moment,' I said, 'I think you will be surprised at what he will allow. Our centurion has just discovered what he lives for, and it is this. — M.C. Scott

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others. — Alex Scarrow

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always. — Laini Taylor

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

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

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

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. — Douglas MacArthur

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

There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war. — Michael Ondaatje

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. — Harold Holzer

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

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts. — Sheldon Rampton

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

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace ... we just need to declare it. — John Lennon