Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Rebecca West

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

Russell Banks

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Matthew Fox

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

Walter Long

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Kurt Cobain

His dying seemed to give total strangers a sense of integrity they never had wanted while he was alive.

Morrie Schwartz

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Henry David Thoreau

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Malcolm X

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Malcolm X

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

James Joyce

Does nobody understand?

Orson Welles

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Ann Brashares

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.