War Relief Quotes

#1. And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

Boris Pasternak

#2. When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.

Henry L. Stimson

#3. The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.

Teresa R. Funke

#4. Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

Dennis Hastert

#5. The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.

William Carlos Williams

#6. I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Audrey Hepburn

#7. even found time to organize relief for war orphans.

Cormac O'Brien

#8. A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes feelings of humility and regret.

John Lamberton Harper

#9. Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

John Fugelsang

#10. The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

Vladimir Lenin

#11. This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

James Lovelock

#12. Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.

Ulysses S. Grant

#14. Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

P. J. O'Rourke