10,941 Quotes About War

But Misha didn’t just remind me of Sergei. He was every child whose parents went to war. He was every boy and girl at Keramzin. He was Baghra begging for her father’s attention. He was the Darkling learning loneliness at his mother’s knee. This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun. Nikolai had believed in something better.

The most opportune battle is one not fought at all.

In Yorkshire's Harewood chapel, frigid effigies of fifteenth-century warriors lie on their tombs like ships at anchor, bearing silent witness to the slaughter [of the War of the Roses].

The blast of wind and eerie light beneath me announced the moment that always made my testicles shrink. A thin sheet of aluminum, and nothing but the bottom of a canvas chair to protect me over Nazi Germany.

The further you are away from it, the more war reads like arithmetic. Past that, it reads like fiction. Past that, its just an annoying video on your info stream.

What happened here on Kerenza is not the story of one corporation against another. It is the story of what happened to those caught in the middle. To people, to families. BeiTech would have us believe that WUC's decision to colonize Kerenza - a decision I acknowledge was outside the law - gave it license to cast aside the law and all other matters. To kill civilians, to kill children and to throw away lives in pursuit of profit.

Martinez: I guarantee you this: not one of us has learned a single thing today.-Condors

The gun has a name, made up of words and numbers. A measurement in millimeters, a decimal point, all befitting a precision instrument. 'Call it a rifle', I was told... But it is a gun.

Jamie: Um... when you say 'Hopeless Romantic'... what you actually mean is I'm--Beth: Hopeless at being romantic, yes.