Quotes About Drums Of War

#1. I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

John McCain

#2. Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

William Shakespeare

#3. The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Pliny The Elder

#4. No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Margaret Case Harriman

#5. Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
Once more your Captain calls to you;
Come to his last review!

Richard Watson Gilder

#6. The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family ... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

Pope John Paul II

#7. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#8. It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones.

Colum McCann

#9. Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

Eminem

#10. Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

Yasmin Mogahed

#11. My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

G. Hannelius

#12. Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.

Helen Simonson

#13. Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

Charles Duhigg

#14. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin' braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin' off tae war?

Brian Jacques

#15. I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

Miguel

#16. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

Tim Robbins

#17. I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

David O. Russell

#18. Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#19. On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums ... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

Sun Tzu

#20. Our tongues danced - not a waltz or a minuet, but a war dance, a death dance of bone drums and screaming fiddles.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

Pat Buchanan

#22. Lord help us to understand that everything we desire to achieve has to have a basic start/foundation. For example: every story has an introduction, body and closing. So there is no way we can skip one of the three elements.

Euginia Herlihy

#23. All I hear are Satan's hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.

Alexandra Bracken

#24. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

#25. Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.

Bell Hooks

#26. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

Ron Paul

#27. What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?

Julia Cameron

#28. All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#29. Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.

Tariq Ramadan

#30. If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler