Quotes About Adversity

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

War is an admission of failure

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.