Top 23 War Ww1 Quotes
#1. Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
#2. Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
Gary Sinise
#3. No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.
Joss Sheldon
#4. Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
Albert Payson Terhune
#5. If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.
After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.
Theresa Breslin
#7. I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'
Brian Eno
#8. Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128
Donna Tartt
#9. Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
Richard Branson
#10. By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality.
Herge
#11. But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied, gratified; gay-gallant-and-gleeful. But they do not achieve anything acceptable, perceptible; or peaceful.
Joss Sheldon
#12. As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.
Terry McAuliffe
#13. This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.
Jeremy Clarkson
#14. The great rich nation had made triumphant war, suffered enough for poignancy but not enough for bitterness - hence the carnival, the feasting, the triumph.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Erich Maria Remarque
#16. You can't force people to see truth. Arguing with them will only draw their attention away from it.
John Braun Jr.
#17. I had him in my cab once.
Who? Neville asked
Rupert Brooke. He was good, him. "There's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England".
That would be the bit with my nose under it; just fucking drive, will you?
Pat Barker
#19. I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.
Christian Slater
#20. Besides, if you can spot a
house that contains, say, half a dozen to a dozen people, and just plop a "Johnson" right amidships, it generally means "exit house and people," which, I suppose, is a desirable object to be attained, according to twentieth century manners.
Bruce Bairnsfather
#21. Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.
Ken Follett
#22. The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.
Ken Follett
#23. I crawled in a spirit-haunted place
Made wild by souls that moan and mourn;
And Death leered by with mangled face -
Ah God! I prayed, I prayed for dawn.
Arthur Newberry 1893- Choyce
