Top 25 Quotes About Life During War
#1. Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.
Johannes Heesters
#2. And during times such as those, when people wanted to get on with life, the Battle of the Sexes turned into all-out war.
In the Battle of the Sexes fought by the Milesians, the men won.Whilst in the battle fought by the Malesians, the men lost.[INTRO]
Nicholas Chong
#3. My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#4. Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12
Jon Meacham
#5. During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.
Henny Youngman
#6. The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.
Simone Weil
#7. I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.
Erwin McManus
#9. The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
Joseph Rotblat
#10. There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war.
Hannah Moskowitz
#11. Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War and a desire by the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) to protect its comfortable life style in a world that is changing rapidly.
Franklin C. Spinney
#12. I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life
George A. Custer
#13. Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
Paul Harding
#15. During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.
Etgar Keret
#16. In life there is but one career path that will fulfill. The path itself of joy. Make your heart sing. Anything else is a waste of life.
Julieanne O'Connor
#17. taxes consumed less than 10 percent of national income in all four countries during the nineteenth century and up to World War I. This reflects the fact that the state at that time had very little involvement in economic and social life.
Thomas Piketty
#18. life is unexpected, and back during World War II it was harsher
Nick Golodoff
#19. And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.
George W. Bush
#20. I didn't suffer from PTSD, but I changed. People change in life, and not just because of war. I saw this in life before the military, and over and over again during the thirty-one years I served. We can't expect people to stay the same forever; we need to respect those changes.
Valerie Ormond
#21. During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
George William Norris
#22. Now, I looked across the Plattsburgh train depot and swelled with indulgent love at Ev's grumpy scowl.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#23. Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.
Peter Menzel
#24. We live a life of privilege. That doesn't mean we can literally switch off these women, whose only fault was being born in the Congo during civil war. We need to bear witness.
Maria Semple
#25. During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti
