Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Bashar al-Assad

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Mark Fontaine

Privatization does not mean you abdicate your responsibility.

Joni Mitchell

People think it's being remodeled, ... I tell them, and they say, 'What? What do you mean they're tearing down the old high-school building?'

Butch Loper

People don't understand what is meant by storm surge. You're telling them, 'Hey, you need to go.

Jeff Lebo

A win helps, no doubt about it. There's just a different look in their eye when you win. We needed to get this one.

Carla Ponte

Ratko Mladic is in Serbia. There is no doubt about this. He has been there since 1998. During all this time he has been and remains within reach of the Serbian authorities.

Reinhard Kurth

Personally as experts, we have no doubt about it whatever.

Frank Rossi

Our shot selection wasn't very good. No doubt that hurt us.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Definitely, without a doubt, the president of the IFP knew of all these things.

John Connolly

And there is no doubt our forward effort was not what we would have liked it to have been, and they know they have to be much better on Saturday.

Ellen Pompeo

And that's one of the most genius roles ever played. So I think a sense of self-doubt somehow translates into something very interesting.

John Norris

A rate hike in November is without a doubt a given. We're staring 4 percent in the face,