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But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.
— Fredrik Backman
When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.
— Scott Raab
The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.
— Sun Tzu
I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.
— Lana Del Rey
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.
— Sun Tzu
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
— Irma Joubert
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
— Billy Childish
Cuz that's it -
That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
When yer winning -
When yer winning, it's effing thrilling - — Patrick Ness
That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
When yer winning -
When yer winning, it's effing thrilling - — Patrick Ness
When there's a war, people get married.
— Doris Lessing
When you are dealing with an invisible enemy,
use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. — Toba Beta
use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. — Toba Beta
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
— Daniel J. Evans
There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
— Jay Leno
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
— Charles S. Weinblatt
It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!
— Avijeet Das
When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.
— Royce White
Isn't it fascinating how our minds work when rational thought is at war with emotion?
— Kate Watterson
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
When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.
— Debasish Mridha
When the war's over, I'll be kind.
— Kamila Shamsie
Ragnarok is coming. When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey
— Neil Gaiman
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
— George W. Bush
Each hour, every hour of peace was a treasure. War boiled black and violent on the horizon, and when it came, it would engulf the world.
— Nalini Singh
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.
— Ayn Rand
When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.
— Girdhar Joshi
Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.
— Sven-Goran Eriksson
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
— Kevin J. Anderson
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
— June Carter Cash
When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.
— P.J. Sullivan
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.
— Sergei Lavrov
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
— Alice Walker
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
— Byron Katie
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
— Lee Myung-bak
Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
— Thomas Pynchon
You will only know real peace
when you've won the war.
Amen, Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 20, 2016 — Petra Hermans
when you've won the war.
Amen, Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 20, 2016 — Petra Hermans
When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.
— Clint Walker
I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
— William Shakespeare
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
— George R R Martin
It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.
— Denis Johnson
We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.
— Kenneth Eade
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
— John Le Carre
You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. — Steven Pressfield
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. — Steven Pressfield
When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for?
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron
When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!
— Ernie Hudson
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
— Criss Jami
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
— Golda Meir
Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.
— Anonymous
Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry.
— Virginia Woolf
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.
— Donald Rumsfeld
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
— Takeda Nobushige
When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death
— Robert Asprin
The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When
— Adam Smith
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
— Bob Gunton
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
— John F. Kennedy
War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
— Anonymous
But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them.
— Leila Sales
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
— Chalmers Johnson
When people go at war they cheapen things.
— Michael Pitt
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting.
— Sun Tzu
nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.
— Sun Tzu
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.
— Sun Tzu
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
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
— Len Deighton
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.
— Sun Tzu
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
— Elie Wiesel
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
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
— Noam Chomsky
A blanket could be used to warn your enemy that you are coming - and that you are warm. Where's the cold war when you need it?
— Jarod Kintz
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I did not like war, even when it was the popular thing to do.
— Charles Bukowski
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.
— Sun Tzu
When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why.
— Joe Reyes