War Board Quotes

#1. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

E.B. White

#2. Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque

Bill Vaughan

#3. Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind ... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

Julie Garwood

#4. Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Ray Comfort

#5. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

Margaret Atwood

#6. What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

Dave Barry

#7. He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

Ted Dekker

#8. For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda
patriot on board!" I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.

Bill Maher

#9. [God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.

Wayne Cordeiro

#10. There were time to drool over a sexy wolf.
Sitting in the middle of a war room disguised as a board meeting was not one of those times.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#11. You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.

Vince Lombardi

#12. Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

W. Averell Harriman

#13. If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.

Nicolas Cage

#14. Chess is like war on a board

Bobby Fischer

#15. When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

Oscar Levant

#16. The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own - not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Richard Paul Evans

#17. She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war.

P.D. James

#18. Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Octavio Paz

#19. As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

Herman Melville

#20. The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They're laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that they've tried to play with my life. Yelling. Loud shouts. It's near me, but the chaos controlling me makes it incoherent.

Katie McGarry

#21. To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.

Michael Socha

#22. The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.

John Allen Paulos

#23. I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.

Gene Black

#24. My parents were Belfast Catholics.

Pete Hamill

#25. After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Leon Panetta

#26. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Bobby Fischer

#27. How could they be on opposite sides when it came to protecting the planet that hosted all of them?

Colleen Gleason

#28. France ... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

Bill Maher

#29. Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

David Sobel