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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

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty. — Michael Novak

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time. — Marcia Gay Harden

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

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

In time of war, it is not enough to say, 'I am a citizen and I have rights.' One must also say, 'I am a citizen and I have obligations. — Kermit Roosevelt III

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

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

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time. — Tom Ridge

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

We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight. — Kermit Roosevelt III

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war. — Thomas Paine

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

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. — Bob Feller

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

fierce tea making

in time of war, — Geoffrey Hill

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff

But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves were . . . well, thick as thieves. — Ken Liu

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

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed. — James Anthony Froude

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. — Hamilton Fish

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? — Ramsay MacDonald

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat. — Mstislav Rostropovich

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

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

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time. — Will Cuppy

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better. — Benito Mussolini

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time — Nicole Mones

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time. — Friedrich St. Florian

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

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. — Kenneth Clark

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. — Aeschylus

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war. — J.G. Ballard

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. — August Bebel

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. — Robert Taft

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time. — John Hay Beith

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war. — Bernhard Langer

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. — Henry A. Kissinger

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured. — Victor Davis Hanson

I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them. — Donovan Campbell

Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God. — Kenneth Patchen

It was a time of war.
Isn't it always. — Brian K. Vaughan

It's a time of war, Alera. [ ... ] Nothing is fair, and nothing is right, and it isn't easy to understand or accept. — Cayla Kluver

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered. — Amine Maalouf

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that. — Hal Newhouser

In time of peace prepare for war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

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

War had made a man of him before his time. — Anonymous

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

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 World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time. — Erik Larson

This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves. — Karen White

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

It is always a time of war. — Ogden W. Rogers

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

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after. — Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years. — Markus Zusak

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war. — Esther Forbes

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

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

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

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

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

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it. — Rebecca Solnit

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