Good Quotes

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

~ George Mcgovern

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

~ Robert E. Lee

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

~ Eric Stoltz

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

~ George H. W. Bush

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

~ Asghar Farhadi

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.

~ Patty Jenkins

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

~ Sun Tzu

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

~ Chris Kyle

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

~ Frank Whittle

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

~ Nam June Paik

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

~ Benjamin Franklin

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

~ Neville Chamberlain

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

~ John Stuart Mill

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

~ Curtis Lemay

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

~ Winston Churchill

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

~ Golda Meir

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

~ Sophocles

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

~ Herman Wouk

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

~ Josh Gad

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

~ Sylvester Stallone

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

~ Chief Joseph

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

~ Michael Morpurgo

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

~ Tony Judt

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

~ Charles Mackay

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

~ Robert E. Lee

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

~ Knute Rockne

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

~ Rick Pitino

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

~ George Eliot

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

~ Paulo Coelho

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

~ Louis C. K.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

~ Orhan Pamuk

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

~ Mark Cuban

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

~ Daniel Radcliffe

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

~ Tullian Tchividjian