O'war Quotes

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe Oh. — Tim O'Brien

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. — Margaret Mitchell

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern. — Margaret Mitchell

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever. — Tim O'Brien

You must become your enemy to truly understand him. — Felix O. Hartmann

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story. — Tim O'Brien

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. — Shel Silverstein

I was a coward. I went to the war. — Tim O'Brien

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war. — Tim O'Brien

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. — Lord Mountbatten

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. — Anne O'Hare McCormick

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. — Basil O'Connor

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. — John O. Brennan

It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose ... than when they do it by accident. — Henry V. O'Neil

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson

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

Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked. — Flannery O'Connor

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever. — Lewis H. Lapham

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population. — John O. Brennan

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. — Sandra Day O'Connor

That you don't make war without knowing why. — Tim O'Brien

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life — O. Henry

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me — Aldo Leopold

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education. — David O. Russell

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

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con. — Steve-O

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them. — Henry V. O'Neil

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up. — Tim O'Brien

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with ... — Gerard K. O'Neill

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes? — Jermaine O'Neal

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies. — Earl Warren

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it. — Clare Mulley

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter. — P. J. O'Rourke

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is. — Tim O'Brien

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar? — Walter Scott

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war. — Mary Rose O'Reilley

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name. — Alexander Pope

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move. — Tim O'Brien

Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day. — P. J. O'Rourke

War diminishes both civil and economic rights. — P. J. O'Rourke

War is never good for commerce. Lest your trading in steel o'course. — Anthony Ryan

Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest. — Jessica O'Toole

Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle. — Stormie O'martian

War will exist as long as there's a food chain. — P. J. O'Rourke

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it. — Henry V. O'Neil

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley

Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut Up. — Bill O'Reilly

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war. — Tim O'Brien

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants. — Edward Kennedy

I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. — Henry V. O'Neil

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II. — William O'Neill

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war. — Louis O. Kelso

You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life. — Henry V. O'Neil

O Lord save mankind! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I hated him for making me stop hating him — Tim O'Brien

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes! — Charles Dickens

O war! thou son of Hell! — William Shakespeare

War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language. — A.O. Scott

I sure am sick of the Civil War. — Flannery O'Connor

even found time to organize relief for war orphans. — Cormac O'Brien

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts. — Felix O. Hartmann

To the left, Pigpen, Man O'War and Dust are laughing in a booth with my brother, Brandon. — Katie McGarry

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. — James Russell Lowell

It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress — Tyne O'Connell

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. — Wilfred Owen

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light. — Jaggi Vasudev

Why are you doing this? — Morrissey

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. — Kelli O'Hara

O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats

America is the world's policeman, all right
a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a domestic disturbance. — P. J. O'Rourke

The train rolled right through dinner and over the sunset and around ten o'clock and into a nap and out the next day... — Lindsay Mattick

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters. — Dan O'Neill

In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense. — Tim O'Brien

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington ... — Claire Vaye Watkins

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? — Zebulon Pike

Stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously. — Tim O'Brien

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. — Tim O'Brien

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! — William Shakespeare

A true war story is never moral. — Tim O'Brien

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. — Randall Dale Adams

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it. — Rosie O'Donnell

I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11. — John O'Neill

You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack. — Patrick O'Brian

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not. — P. J. O'Rourke

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes. — Billy Rose

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. — P. J. O'Rourke

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son. — Tim O'Brien

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief. — James Weldon Johnson

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. — Tim O'Brien