Robin War Quotes

#1. As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

Wayne Muller

#3. The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

Parke Godwin

#4. I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

Robin Cook

#5. Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle.

#6. I stood like Adam in his lonely garden
On that first morning, shaken out of sleep,
Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves,
Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.

Mary Oliver

#7. In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

Robin Sacredfire

#8. Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Robin Williams

#9. The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

Robin Williams

#10. It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang, but by the time I got to Nam, it scared the piss out of a lot of guys just to fly the damn jets at full speed. Let alone do it in combat.

Robin Olds

#11. It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

Robin Olds

#12. Yet people see only what they expect to see, and will search for evidence to support what they already believe. It is a rare person indeed who is humble enough to admit that he has been wrong.

C.A. Gray

#13. When George Washington directed federal troops to exterminate the Onondaga during the Revolutionary War, a nation that had numbered in the tens of thousands was reduced to a few hundred people in a matter of one year.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#14. I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.

Elon Musk

#15. Jason Todd. AKA Red Hood. Former Robin. Died nobly. Came back a bit less noble.

Tom King

#16. A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

Robin Williams

#17. Dream better than the best you know.

Neville Goddard

#18. If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

Thom Yorke

#19. Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

Robin Williams

#20. Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

Robin R. Meyers

#21. isn't the men who declare war who have to wage it. Only those of us who live in the field truly understand the realities of power.

Robin Parrish

#22. As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

Robin Hayes

#23. Selfishness is also written on our hearts. This is our mammalian conflict - what to give to others, and what to keep for yourself.

Ian McEwan

#24. We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges fit together and we're almost whole.

Sarra Manning

#25. Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.

Robin Williams

#26. If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

Robin Williams

#27. The exception tests the rule.

Richard P. Feynman

#28. Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the palace of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like unwelcome visitors.

Robin S. Sharma

#29. Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Francesco Guicciardini

#30. Now take it easy. This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?"
I felt it. I took it easy.

Ross Macdonald

#31. Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

Robin Oliveira