War Drum Quotes

#1. Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Alexander Payne

#2. Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon.

Buddy Wakefield

#3. Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum ... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind ... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle ...

Chinua Achebe

#4. I will not dance to your war drum!

Suheir Hammad

#5. Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

Suheir Hammad

#6. Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Christopher Marlowe

#7. And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

Chris Matthews

#8. It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Max Frisch

#9. Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

Thomas E. Mann

#10. War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Seneca The Younger

#11. Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#12. Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.

Kevin Drum

#13. As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

#14. My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

Paul Stanley

#16. I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Andy Warhol

#17. Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Anna Lindh

#18. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

William Shakespeare

#19. Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.

Pat Williams

#20. I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

William Landay