Quotes About Transition

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

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

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

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

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.

I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.