Quotes About Devastation Of War

#1. I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

Shinzo Abe

#2. One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return.

Debasish Mridha

#3. They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.

M.J. Rose

#4. It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

Lauren Lee Smith

#5. I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

Gary Numan

#6. If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

Whitney Tilson

#7. I declare, it is like some other part of me made up some rules about happiness and I just went along with them without thinking. My heart is lightened so much that I am amazed at how sad I felt for so long.

Nancy E. Turner

#8. Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.

Nicholas Stern

#10. Devastation wrought by crack cocaine and the drug war, and the odd coincidence that an illegal drug crisis suddenly appeared in the black community after - not before - a drug war had been declared. In fact, the War on Drugs began at a time when illegal drug use was on the decline.

Michelle Alexander

#11. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Katherine Dunn

#12. My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

Peter Capaldi

#13. Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Edmund White

#14. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

Shirley Jackson

#15. It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off

Elizabeth Berg

#16. The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. You don't just rise to the top. There are times of preparation and many mountains to conquer for the ultimate triumph to the top.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Elend sat still in a room full of men who trusted him, even as they rejected him.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

Graydon Carter

#21. No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

Michael Burgess

#22. The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

Arundhati Roy

#23. Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

Sara Genn

#24. Artillery raining fire on his tiny village Jabla on the Line of Control (LoC). War has numbed him, so has devastation. Yet nothing had prepared him for the havoc of Saturday morning. He was taking a nap, having had his pre-dawn Ramzan meal. At first there

Anonymous

#25. The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Elliott Colla