Armistice Quotes

#1. What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.

Stephanie Mills

#2. Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Glen Cook

#3. Was Philip Dexter upset?"
"He's telephoned the office every day."
She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?"
"Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day.

Rose Franken

#4. When Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.

Henry Kissinger

#5. If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

Pietro Badoglio

#6. Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

Milton Berle

#7. What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!

Ford Madox Ford

#8. country, wearing dark glasses, after the armistice - receiving

Edmond Taylor

#9. When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

Kelly Miller

#10. All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.

Courtney Milan

#11. We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Richard Aldington

#13. Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

Bernard DeVoto

#14. Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

Alexis Ohanian

#16. In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

Noah Feldman

#17. I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

Ugo Cavallero

#18. When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.

Winston S. Churchill

#19. Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

Jacques Derrida

#20. Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Thucydides

#21. On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand - a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada.

Pierre Berton

#22. I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.

Sigourney Weaver

#23. I know who you are. Ash's voice shook slightly, which chilled me even more. That Ash, fearless, unshakable Ash, was afraid of this thing filled me with dread.

Julie Kagawa

#24. I understand what it is like to rely on beauty and know the shallowness of it ... Yet, it is impossible to say if you would have caught my attention the first time had you been plain and wrapped in brown. Thus remains the endless dilemma of beauty's impressionable curse.

Anne Mallory

#25. There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#26. As with most of the future worlds in the science fiction, you are not talking about the future. You are talking about the present. You are using the future as a way of giving a bit of room to move.

Alan Moore

#27. Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#28. In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared for the beast that was about to pick them up by the throats and shake them until their teeth rattled.

Melodie Ramone

#29. What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

Lisa See