August 1914 Quotes

#1. As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland took a stand: 'We give this solemn warning to Kaiser Wilhelm: The Skibbereen Eagle has its eye on you.

Robert Hutton

#2. Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and world peace. Tuesday, 4 August 1914 brought that experiment to an abrupt halt.

Kenneth O. Morgan

#3. In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

Maurice Allais

#4. Far from shocking the rulers of Europe, the war that erupted in August 1914 was widely anticipated, rigorously rehearsed, immensely resourced and meticulously planned.

Paul Ham

#5. Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

Charles J. Shields

#6. Our little son is surely with the Lord God now, singing with the angels.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Edward Everett Hale

#8. These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

A.E. Housman

#9. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

#10. It's an universal law
intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.

Lang Lang

#12. I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

#13. Nervousness kill us ... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance.

Vikram Roy

#14. THE TRAIN CARRYING THE BODY OF ELLEN AXSON Wilson pulled into the station at Rome, Georgia, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, August 11, 1914, under gunmetal skies, amid the peal of bells.

Erik Larson

#15. I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

Carole Seymour-Jones

#16. PROLOGUE 7TH SEPTEMBER 1874 It's the music that wakes Alison. She opens her eyes and is instantly alert, with only one thought in her mind: They are in the garden again.

Danny Weston

#17. August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.

Franz Kafka

#18. If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Mark Twain

#19. Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Rand Paul

#21. Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

Victor L. Wooten