War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 31

• I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, War, Humor

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

  Christopher Vokes

  Military, War, Engineering

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.

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• nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

  Anne Applebaum

  War, Thinking, August

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• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

  Selma Diamond

  War, Humor, People

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• We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Fighting, Reality

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• We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Hero, World

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wise, Military, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

  Lance Armstrong

  Block, War, Two

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Believe, Iran

  "Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity". Press TV, October 2007.

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• I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

  Gene Cernan

  Children, War, Two

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.

  Elle Fanning

  War, World, Involved

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• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  Eric Liu

  War, Air, Chinese

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• By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  War, Army, Victory

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• The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.

  Lea Salonga

  War, Europe, World

  "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Boat

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cat, Land

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fall, Hands

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• Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Defense, Wipe

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• There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Europe

  Radio address from Moscow (November 6, 1941). Vital Speeches of the Day, p. 102, December 1, 1941.

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• Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Blood, World

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• This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Past, World

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• In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Three, World

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• The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Water, Enemy

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