War Zones Quotes - Page 3

• My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Football, War

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.56, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

  George W. Norris

  War, Government, President

  6 Copy quote

• I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Rights, Years

  4 Copy quote

• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

  War, Team, People

  104 Copy quote

• I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

  Questlove

  War, Class, Philadelphia

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

  Dean Koontz

  War, Taken, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1113, Bantam

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

  George W. Norris

  War, Great Day, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

  John le Carre

  War, Reality, Issues

  5 Copy quote

• The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, War, Suffering

  18 Copy quote

• The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, War, People

  56 Copy quote

• Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

  Bruce Cockburn

  War, World, Found

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

  9 Copy quote