Quotes About Adversity

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

War always takes you by surprise.

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn't human.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive...