Warring Quotes (page 123)

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• greatness
• men
• eyes

There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton. George S. Patton

• war
• nothing
• likely

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives... Salman Rushdie

• car
• sister
• war

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. Margaret Atwood

• power
• hungry
• war

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. Terence McKenna

• crying
• country
• free

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. William Ellery Channing

• war
• won
• wars

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won Ronald Reagan

• war
• always
• weakness

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness Muriel Rukeyser

• war
• pain
• world

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. Chuck Palahniuk

• cat
• fighting
• night

Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN. Sherman Alexie

• moments
• children
• mind

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers. Leo Tolstoy

• war
• die
• needs

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. J. R. R. Tolkien

• love
• war
• mad

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war. H. G. Wells

• war
• makes
• making

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No. Mitch Albom

• leaving
• new
• home

In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm... Suzanne Collins

• war
• sides
• wars

Was there ever a war where only one side bled? George R. R. Martin