War Weariness Quotes

#1. America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say "perception" because America is a very all-or-nothing society ... We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating.

Max Brooks

#2. I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

Hampton Sides

#3. Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#4. When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out ... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

Byron Katie

#5. Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

Gail Zappa

#6. The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.

Joe Posnanski

#7. War is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.

John Steinbeck

#8. I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

Danai Gurira

#9. I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

Utah Phillips

#10. Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#11. Blank eyes stared from sunken sockets as if the divine force, the daimon, had been extinguished like a lamp, replaced by a weariness beyond description, a stare without effect, the hollow gaze of hell itself.

Pressfield, Steven

#12. We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Warren G. Harding

#13. You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

Michael Symon

#14. What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

Sergei Bubka

#15. Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.

Xavier Niel