Quotes About Truce

A future general, Captain Jack of the Cameronians, averse to the truce when on the line, had speculated in his diary a few days earlier, in almost Shavian fashion, about the larger implications of the cease-fire, which had extended farther than governments conceded, "It is interesting to visualize the close of a campaign owing to the opposing armies--neither of them defeated--having become too friendly to continue the fight.

We sometimes think of life as a conflict between the head and the heart, but in such a situation there is no unity of the human being, but only truces, compromises, and temporary victories of parties with divergent interests. The virtuous soul, on the contrary, blends all its parts in the act of choice.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Eleven Observation #1: Boys are vulnerable. Even the ones that seem like total, complete jerks. Observation #2: Boys don't know when to call a truce already. Especially the ones that seem like total, complete jerks.

word slip while onshore, the whole deal would be ruined. André boarded the Vulture for the night and awaited a message from Arnold for their meeting the next day. None came. On Thursday, September 21, Arnold received a letter complaining that boats from West Point had fired upon a small vessel traveling to shore under the flag of truce, which was a violation of the terms of war. "Fortunately

The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

Kavad himself, if obliged to fight on a Jewish holy day, had been known to request his adversaries for a temporary truce.

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

War has no winners and peace, no losers

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

In 1948, northern liberals inserted a civil rights plank into the national Democratic platform, prompting a walkout of Southern delegations - which then coalesced around the third party Dixiecrat candidacy of Strom Thurmond. An uneasy truce between national and Southern Democrats was reached after that election, but it was untenable.

Truce, she decided and held out a hand. When he only stared at her,she gave a quick huff and swallowed another morsel of pride. Please. Trapped by the single word,he took the offered hand. All right. When she would have drawn her hand away, he tightened his grip. Why? I don't know, Gennie told him with fresh impatience. Just a wild urge to see if I can get along with an ogre. At the ironic lift of his brow, she sighed. All right,that was just a quick slip.I take it back.

War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace. Some want it to be a course of things: a default fact of existence. But I will not let that be so.

War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace.

War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace. Some want it to be the course of things: a default fact of existence. But I will not let that be so.