Long War Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Long War
Long War Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Long War quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.
— Richard Myers
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
— Phil Klay
If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.
— Townsend Harris
We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
— Peter Yarrow
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.
— Thomas Jefferson
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.
— H.L. Mencken
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
— Albert Einstein
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
— Karl Marx
The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.
— Conn Iggulden
Men are not meant to be at war for long.
— Victoria Aveyard
As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war.
— Stanley Hauerwas
It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
— Donald Rumsfeld
As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
— Chris Crass
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
— Juvenal
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
— Kristin Hannah
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
— Max Brooks
We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
— Jacque Fresco
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
— James Hilton
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
— Howard Zinn
First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.
— Pat Barker
If war had taught him anything, it was that it took the people who deserved long and happy lives and gave them short, brutal ones instead.
— Melissa Grey
Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war? — William Butler Yeats
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war? — William Butler Yeats
When there are wars within us, it will not be long before we are at war with others, even those we love.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
— David Mitchell
That's the worst of a war
you have to go on hearing about it so long. — Susan Glaspell
you have to go on hearing about it so long. — Susan Glaspell
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.
— Stephen King
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
— Sun Tzu
Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?]
David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story. — A.G. Riddle
David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story. — A.G. Riddle
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
— Terry Pratchett
I soon found out this much:
terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;
but it kills, if a man thinks about it. — Erich Maria Remarque
terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;
but it kills, if a man thinks about it. — Erich Maria Remarque
My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.
— Ruta Sepetys
This war's not over! Not by a long shot! --Enoch
— S.R. Ford
Poetry, is a life long war waged
against ineffable beauty. — Atticus Poetry
against ineffable beauty. — Atticus Poetry
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
— Paul Johnson
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
— Ralph Peters
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
— Thomas Jefferson
Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism. — Ernest Hemingway,
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism. — Ernest Hemingway,
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.
— John H. Arnold
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.
— Sarah Sundin
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
— Katherine Dunn
We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.
— Michael N. Castle
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
— C.S. Lewis
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
— H.G.Wells
Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
— Joseph N. Welch
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.
— Joe Teti
Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise — Paul McCartney
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise — Paul McCartney
He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines ... imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."
— Joshua R. Sands
No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.
— Margaret Case Harriman
I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.
— Bill Hicks
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
— Amanda Lindhout
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.
— Albert Einstein
ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..
— Kenneth Eade
Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
— Oswald Spengler
You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.
— David Eddings
We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.
— Dalai Lama
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout
"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. — Wilfred Owen
"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. — Wilfred Owen
You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.
— J.D. Salinger
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
— Joseph Addison
The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.
— Calvin Coolidge
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
— Rand Paul
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
— Winston S. Churchill
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
— Fredrik Bajer
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.
— Sam Shepard
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
— Paul Wolfowitz
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
— James I. Robertson Jr.
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
— Karl Liebknecht
As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
— Julian Assange
How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
— Friedrich Nietzsche