Luck often comes to those who are brave.

Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so...

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped...

Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

No one gets left behind, remember?

Make your enemies bleed.

In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea or a flag for which we fight. Rather we fight for the man on our right or left. When the years fall away, all...

The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard...

One month ago they started this psychological war and created a psychological atmosphere, that this or that would happen… there were even threats… but as you saw the atmosphere was strongly in favour of Iranian...

They’re strange, those wars.Full of blood and violence – but full of stories that are equally difficult to fanthom. “It’s true,” people will mutter. “I don’t care if you don’t belive me. It was the...

So the whole war is beause we can’t talk to each other.

It seemed to me then – and to be honest, sir, seems to me still – that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain...

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had,” she said quietly, staring into the embers. “They don’t know what it was like,...

What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York’s dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to...

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.”Verner aka ‘Jens’in the novel ‘the Informer’ by Steen Langstrup

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in...

There’s never peace in war….perhaps it exists in one’s mind at the time.. however short-lived

There is no monopoly of common senseOn either side of the political fenceWe share the same biologyRegardless of ideologyBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too[…]There’s no such thing...

Hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we...

Un prigioniero di guerra è un uomo che cerca di ucciderti, non ci riesce, dopo di che ti chiede di non ucciderlo.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how...

If we can use an H-bomb–and as you said it’s no checker game; it’s real, it’s war and nobody is fooling around–isn’t it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives...

We have only lost the rebounding war twice this year. This was the third. They’re a strong team. They just outworked us.

I keep thinking about the march I joined today. It’s bigger and stronger than war. That’s why it will win. The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing...

I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his...

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

It was like a war zone without the explosion.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

What a tale he’s told, what a bitter bowl of war he’s drunk to the dregs.

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing the lice in a blue USO...

Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own thoughts, bound to keep our minds in complete control. Control requires...

Life mash, Lucia has said, when Eva told her Christopher had gone to war. Eva had asked her what it meant, and Lucia explained it was a patois expression, meaning everything was messed up and...

I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed...

War makes animals of men, and we can’t let that happen to us. If we do, we won’t have any chance of survival.

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy… The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has...

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the crack in the door across the ceiling. People are walking about by lamplight. Something has happened. The...

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the powers abovePut on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.The...

Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn’t bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because...

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This is the place and...

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.