Quotes about "War & Peace"

My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique. ”

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. ”

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ”

We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home. ”

I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army. ”

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do. ”

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city. ”

We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence. ”

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write. ”

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. ”