Dan Simmons Quotes

'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'

Dan Simmons

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • War
  • End
  • Loser

• Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Education

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • War
  • Growing

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • World
  • War
  • Fly

• Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • War
  • Death

• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Time
  • War
  • Law

• Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

  

  William Osler
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Enemy

• Having acknowledged the measure of the good to be pleasure, i.e., beauty, the European upper classes went back in their comprehension of art to the gross conception of the primitive Greeks which Plato had already condemned. And with this understanding of life, a theory of art was formulated.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Systems
  • Assume
  • Acceleration

• The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Success
  • Purpose

• 'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
  • Survival