Martin Van Creveld Quotes
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
Martin Van Creveld
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap
One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Gary Jennings
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
Paris Hilton
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
Francesca Lia Block
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
David Blunkett
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller
I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!
Ann Dowd
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
Olive Schreiner
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
Martin Van Creveld
