Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Hefner

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

Hugh Jackman

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Horace Greeley

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

Horace Greeley

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

Horatio Nelson

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Horatio Nelson

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

Horatio Nelson

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

Horatio Nelson

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Horatio Nelson

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

Horatio Nelson

Thank God I have done my duty.

Horatio Nelson

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Horatio Nelson

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Horatio Nelson

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

Horatio Nelson

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Horace

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Homer

I war not with the dead.

Homer

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

Homer

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Homer

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

Homer

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Homer

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

Homer

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.

Homer

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Homer

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Homer

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Homer

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Homer

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Gloria Steinem

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

Gloria Steinem

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Giorgio Agamben

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

Giorgio Armani

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Geraldine Ferraro

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Geraldo Rivera

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops