Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Ogden Nash

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December

Michael Axelrod

Once the ref blows his whistle, I yell out, 'That's a terrible call' and then I start booing with everybody else.

Taylor Dane

The moral of the story is that with each person justice is served, but what is justice at the end of the day when my brains are blown out anyway?

Rod Lurie

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades. I'm blown away excited to see how much more he will electrify 'Commander In Chief,'

Kim Edwards

A final blow to the dignity of these children is having their government claim they revere our children, and we protect our children, when we don't do that at all. Clearly, what we're doing is protecting our government workers and not the children.

Kevin Sheedy

Some decisions I am not just sure on and when the whistle blows I am not sure what is going to happen.

John Burton

One guy just hangs on the horn as he blows through the city. This is not only a quality of life but a health issue.

Sebastian Coe

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Jim Letten

Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Jan Brewer

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.

Craig Kilborn

In Louisiana, President Bush met with over 15,000 National Guard troops. Here's the weird part, nobody remembers seeing him there.

Craig Kilborn

As John Kerry sails toward the Democratic nomination, new questions are emerging about President Bush's service in the National Guard, like where he was for six months in 1972 and why he refused to take a routine physical. President Bush has vowed to get to the bottom of this right after Election Day.