Quotes about "War & Peace"

There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster. ”

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater. ”

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ”

My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations. ”

Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making. ”

I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid. ”

There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry. ”

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back. ”

The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace. ”

Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choose the mediator. Their participation as intermediaries is based on the trust of all the conflicting parties. ”