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Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer

If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel. — Max Von Essen

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. — Cathleen Schine

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. — Hugh Bonneville

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II. — Dave Brubeck

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013. — Steve Sabol

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

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation. — David Ignatius

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

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. — Ross Perot

By 7:55 am on December 7, World War II in the Pacific had been in progress for more than eight hours. — Jeffrey Cox

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan. — Andrew Cherng

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. — Daniel Yergin

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II. — Andy Rooney

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. — Sebastian Junger

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. — Simon Sinek

World War II was the last government program that really worked. — George Will

You just got sprung."
"Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II. — James Lee Burke

You no longer need to fly a World War II aircraft in an age of jet fighters, and you no longer need to weigh yourself against a non-existent Norma. — Todd Rose

My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one. — Bette Greene

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II. — Sam Kean

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

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands. — Van Jones

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn. — George Vecsey

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl) — Marv Levy

It reminded Freddy of the World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up. — Richard Phillips

Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II — Charles M. Blow

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. — Selma Diamond

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. — Thomas Friedman

The world is wrong. I'm just doing my part to fix it. — Ryan Graudin

We're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. — Ruta Sepetys

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct — Simone De Beauvoir

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.' — Seth Numrich

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — Anne Waldman

From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. — Sophal Ear

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. — Guy Sajer

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. — Paul Wolfowitz

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had. — William Westmoreland

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. — Teresa R. Funke

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. — Edmund Ironside

World War II ... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us. — Graham Chapman

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. — Phil Donahue

Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister. — Sarah Sundin

If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term. — Robert Dallek

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. — John Mearsheimer

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. — Oliver North

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

... the last year had seen women and children carrying [gas] masks about as they carried a handbag or a skipping rope. — Kristy Cambron

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it. — Stefan Heym

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead? — Elizabeth Berg

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. — Jeff Greene

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. — Kenneth Joseph Arrow

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. — Stephen Kinzer

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

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked. — Roger Hilsman

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution. — Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. — David Hackworth

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars. — Monica Hesse

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. — Guy Sajer

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. — Dave Barry

The Purple Scar might have been a paper casualty of World War II. — John S. Endicott

The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II. — John Allen Paulos

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II, — Rand Paul

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world. — Bob Feller

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'. — Dana Gould

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. — Kurt Masur

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. — Grace Murray Hopper

I was a lieutenant in World War II. — John Eisenhower

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. — Elliott Abrams

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II. — Naoto Kan

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the "right side" of the war, ever heard - let alone answered? — Kristina McMorris

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel. — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam? — Pat Buchanan

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

...They were nothing but numbers to the people who had started this war. — Ellen Marie Wiseman

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers. — Ben Bernanke

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling. — Bobbie Ann Mason

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

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars. — Martin Winterkorn

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must. — Markus Zusak

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II. — Vandana Shiva

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy. — Robert Kiyosaki