My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Powerful War Quotes That Will Inspire and Motivate You - page 115
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
Hans Rosling
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!
Johnny Bench
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It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.
Zachary Lazar
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
“The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.
Lauren Ambrose
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
We need a people's movement to end this war, ... We're going to ask them How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies
Cindy Sheehan
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
Dominique Pire
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
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You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.
Richard Preston
