There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: life war joy opportunity
Но если вдруг такой наступит день -
тишайший снег и сумерек мерцанье,
и станет жечь, нагнав меня везде,
блаженное одно воспоминанье,
и я не справлюсь с ним и, постучав,
приду в мой дом и встану на пороге,
спрошу... Ну, там спрошу: "Который час?"
или: "Воды", как на войне в дороге, —
то вы приход не осуждайте мой,
ответьте мне доверьем и участьем:
ведь я пришла сюда к себе домой
и помню все и верю в наше счастье...
I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing the lice in a blue USO envelope. His eyes were tired. It had been a long two weeks in the bush. After an hour or so he sealed up the envelope, wrote FREE in the upper right-hand corner, and addressed it to his draft board in Ohio.
Tim O'BrienStichwörter: reality history war
Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
Salman RushdieStichwörter: history war religion free-speech literary memoir secularism terrorism aristotle fatwa averroës ibn-rushd
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
Joseph HellerStichwörter: humor war stars fatalism
In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if this strength, this enormous agglomeration that surrounded them on every side, could not break the Russians, then nothing would.
Alan ClarkKrebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so, with almost incredible effrontery, he tried to talk to Chuikov as an equal, opening the conversation with the general comment:
"Today is the first of May, a great holiday for our two nations..."
With seven million Russian dead, half his country devastated, and fresh evidence mounting daily of the unspeakable barbarity with which the Germans had treated Soviet captives and civilians, Chuikov's answer was a model of restraint, a standing testimony to the cool head and dry wit of that remarkable man. He said:
"We have a great holiday today. How things are with you over there it is less easy to say.
As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o’ defeatin’ death, but neither o’ them do a blinkin’ thing but sanction dyin’. Throughout history, Death’s best friend has been a priest with a knife.
Tom RobbinsStichwörter: war death religion
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
Anaïs NinThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillStichwörter: wisdom history peace war
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