Planning War Quotes

#1. There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.

John Ferling

#3. Apparently the town, a triumph of post-war socialist planning was a sewer, full of tattooed beasts and violent zombies, with vomit and blood frothing in the gutters. I couldn't wait to see it.

Hanif Kureishi

#4. When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

Christiane Amanpour

#6. Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Jay Samit

#7. Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

Winston Churchill

#9. They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.

Patty Hearst

#10. Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Sun Tzu

#11. Gotta keep an eye on those terrorist polar bears, and make sure Santa's elves aren't planning a holy war.

Graham McNamee

#12. What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.

Barbara Castle

#13. And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity.

Stephen King

#14. Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war, he said.
-Baron Arald

John Flanagan

#15. There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

Aaron McGruder

#16. It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.

Cita Stelzer

#17. Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

Dana Gould

#18. I blinked at the haul. "Are you planning to go to war? Sure you don't want to pack an assault riffle as well?"
He looked up from the bag. "You have met yourself, right?"
"So should I get a gun too?"
"I'd fear the day.

Kalayna Price

#19. I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

Nicholson Baker

#20. Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

Timothy Murphy

#21. Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning.

Oliver Stone

#22. Let's make it flashy!

Sakurai Gamon

#23. Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.

A.E. Samaan

#24. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#25. There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

Patty Murray

#26. Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

Stephen Covey

#27. Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents ...

Anthony Gregory

#28. A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Richard M. Nixon

#29. Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Barack Obama

#30. War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

Joseph Sobran

#31. I had come here intending to declare a possible war and instead ended up planning a dinner date with my father at Applebee's.

Ilona Andrews

#32. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

Douglas MacArthur