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The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending. — Emmanuel Jal

I'd never felt anything quite like it. For the first time in my life, everything was as it should be. Because the opposite of war ... is fucking. — Brian K. Vaughan

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. — Elihu Root

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention. — Bob Graham

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them. — Irwin Winkler

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger. — George Vecsey

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war. — Monica Bellucci

We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. — Otto Von Bismarck

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. — Steve Vernon

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. — Helen Thomas

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. — Howard Dean

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

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time. — Albert Einstein

Thomas Paine said, if war must come, let it come in our time, so that our children may live in peace. And it must. So, bring it. Hasten The Day. — Billy Roper

There's never peace in war ... perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived — Will Leamon

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time. — Auliq Ice

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent. — Stephen Covey

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. — Dalton Trumbo

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war — Francis Collins

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. — Daniel J. Evans

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. — Milton Friedman

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources. — Sun Tzu

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training. — Chesty Puller

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. — Georges Clemenceau

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

I say we have no time for debate. Indeed, we have no need for it, since the decision has been made for us. We must fight. There is no other path! — Kaoru Kurimoto

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. — Terry Pratchett

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

There comes a time when we can no longer tell the invaders from the invaded. That is what we call "War. — Hiroya Oku

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time. — Randall Jarrell

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time. — John Cusack

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? — Vladimir Putin

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13. — Patrick Lussier

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time. — Hamid Karzai

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. — Townsend Harris

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

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time. — Meg Rosoff

If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time. — Elif Shafak

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. — Daniel Mendelsohn

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time. — Alex Berenson

It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum! We made it to Hollywood, time to give these aliens the golden boot!" - Angel from the Thousand Years War — Angel Ramon Medina

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

Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack. — Andrea Gibson

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Dick Winters

The high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come. — Winston Churchill

I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. — Peter Landesman

Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. — George Orwell

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out. — Ruta Sepetys

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer

I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

War between free-will and predestination makes
the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest. — Toba Beta

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. — King Hussein

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. — Gene Tierney

I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid. — Marc Maron

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other? — Rita Moreno

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time ... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. — Curtis LeMay

Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea. — Charles Todd

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. — Omar N. Bradley

There is a war up there where time creaks which spans galaxies and eons back and forward to the Big Bang and the Final Implosion — Dan Simmons

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world. — Vivienne Westwood

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. — Albert Einstein

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin

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

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. — David Bailey

Getting her back the last time was a battle. This time, it's going to take a war. — Stylo Fantome

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known — Thomas Hobbes

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade. — Mohsin Hamid

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country. — Fritz Haber

There were time to drool over a sexy wolf.
Sitting in the middle of a war room disguised as a board meeting was not one of those times. — Carrie Ann Ryan

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

Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost. — Steven Herrick

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war. — Terry Pratchett

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. — Jacqueline Winspear

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. — Bryant McGill

The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries. — Richard Aldington

In time of war the laws are silent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski

My gaze lands on the digital clock on my nightstand as it flicks to 12:01 AM. Hours spent in Orane's world, and one minute has passed in mine. — Erica Cameron

They were at war. Time was the one luxury no one had anymore. Tomorrow felt as ephemeral as a kiss in the dark. She — Kristin Hannah

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

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II. — John Thune

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable. — Norman Thomas

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is. — Tobias Smollett

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

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war. — Lane Evans

It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world! — Widad Akreyi

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. — Ishmael Beah

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. — Kevin J. Anderson

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies — Viktor Yushchenko

The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in. — Terry Pratchett

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. — Aslan Maskhadov

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors. — Anthony Marra