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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
— Winston Churchill
If you only knew, all of you, how the camp remains in all our minds, and will until we die.
— Marceline Loridan-Ivens
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
— Bruce Sterling
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
— Philippa Gregory
She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.
— Chris Cleave
If we knew how to find
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle. — Margarita Engle
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle. — Margarita Engle
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
— Sebastian Thrun
My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake.
— Mark Slouka
I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.
— Dinaw Mengestu
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
— Celine Buckens
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
— Margaret Mitchell
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.
— Ru Freeman
I can be either a good friend or a good Nazi, Emil thought. He knew now that he couldn't be both.
— Lee Strauss
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
Stone was fond of the sound bullets made. She was born in war, and lulled by a tune burrowed into her brain that she knew so well.
— R.R. Washburn
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
— Pearl S. Buck
Mahlia knew the many voices of war from her father's chant.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.
— Mark Twain
It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.
— Lois Lowry
This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war.
— Bernard Cornwell
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
— Ban Ki-moon
She tried to clear her mind. She knew she needed to return to the war, already in progress.
— Sharon Linnea
Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
— Walt Whitman
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
— David Lloyd George