Warre Quotes & Sayings

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph. — Joseph Conrad

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me. — Debbie Reynolds

The attaining to this Soveraigne Power, is by two wayes. One, by Naturall force; as when a man maketh his children, to submit themselves, and their children to his government, as being able to destroy them if they refuse, or by Warre subdueth his enemies to his will, giving them their lives on that condition. The other, is when men agree amongst themselves, to submit to some Man, or Assembly of men, voluntarily, on confidence to be protected by him against all others. This later, may be called a Politicall Common-wealth, or Common-wealth by Institution; and the former, a Common-wealth by Acquisition. And first, I shall speak of a Common-wealth by Institution. — Thomas Hobbes

The rest of us are still living on the borrowed fuel of potential and so far have not left deep footprints. But together we carry a brackish air of importance. As if we are doing something worthy in the world. Maybe how we live our lives is the grand experiment? Mixing company, throwing out customs, using first names, waiting to marry, ignoring the rules, and choosing what to care about. Is that why we matter? Or perhaps Miss Warre-Cornish is right and we do not matter in the least. — Priya Parmar

Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had. — Sapan Saxena

Warre is deaths feast. — George Herbert

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things. — Chuck Palahniuk

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others. — Azar Nafisi

The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom. — Ibn Warraq

There's one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don't have anywhere else to go. — Jason Medina

And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body. — Thomas Hobbes

If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read. — Aman Jassal

That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation. — P. J. O'Rourke

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors — Plato

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye. — George Herbert

Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. — George Herbert

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain

I've always been a dreamer, have always believed
in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time,
I'm starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone
the second it leaves your mind? — Pete Wentz

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone. — Sheryl Sandberg

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
[He that will not have peace, God gives him war.] — George Herbert

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out. — Tupac Shakur