Quotes About Impact

We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original 'Frankenstein.' It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws the little girl into the lake, and that freaked me out. Though not as much as when he hangs the hunchback.

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

No two wars are identical.

Boys are the cash of war.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.