Quotes about "War & Peace"

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it. ”

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles. ”

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel. ”

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts. ”

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa. ”

I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes. ”

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. ”

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. ”

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ”

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. ”