War Of Attrition Quotes

#1. We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

William Westmoreland

#2. Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. "Gradual reduction" of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Dax Shepard

#4. The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

Yasser Arafat

#5. It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Julie Bowen

#6. For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

Bryant McGill

#7. The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

Sylvester Stallone

#8. War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

George Vecsey

#9. We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.

Nathanael West

#10. Against the U.S. strategy of attrition, the North Vietnamese pursued a strategy of "enervation" or protracted war. This meant tiring the enemy of his will to fight.

Robert Freeman

#11. To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.

Alexander Pope

#12. On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition - not to determine who was right, but who was left.

Stanley Weintraub

#13. People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth.

Joe Haldeman

#14. Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

Melissa Etheridge

#15. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

#16. I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

#17. The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

James Whistler

#18. Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#19. In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Charles Simic

#20. At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.

Erin Bow

#21. The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

Norman Lamont

#22. In World War II, 35,933 AAF planes were lost in combat and accidents. The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction of the ill-fated planes were lost in combat.

Anonymous

#23. I am the Penitent God. And tonight, I have begun my battle. My siege. The hundred-thousand Ink-borne arrows, flying forth from my flaming pen, to assault the walls of tyrannical Cold that hold this man in awful rapture. My campaign for my friend's very soul. My war of Ice, Ink, and Ember.

S.G. Night

#24. War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

Kate Forsyth

#25. The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great Moo.

William S. Burroughs