Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tucker Carlson

The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.

Tucker Carlson

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

Tucker Carlson

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

Tamora Pierce

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

Taisen Deshimaru

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

Tad Williams

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

Tacitus

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Tacitus

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

Tacitus

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

T Bone Burnett

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Sylvia Plath

If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

Rosamunde Pilcher

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Rosanne Cash

He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the controversy of making a public statement against the war. He knew that people were rabid. They attacked me mercilessly after I did the press conference with Musicians United to Win Without War. He knew that he couldn't tolerate that.

Rosanne Cash

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Rosanne Cash

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

Ron Suskind

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

Ron Wyden

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Ron Fournier

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Ron Fournier

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

Ron Fournier

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

Samantha Power

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

Rupert Brooke

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.

Rupert Brooke

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

Rupert Everett

In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Rupert Everett

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Tom Peters

Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

Toby Keith

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

Toby Keith

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.

Steve Jobs

I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

Steve Coogan

When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.

Stephen Hadley

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

Stephen Gaghan

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.