#desert

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#desert #find #hardly #into #place

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#deserted #forced #i #january #labor

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#days #desert #dusty #fields #landed

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#abroad #cannot #defend #deserting #freedom

I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#artists #bring #christ #christian #deserted

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#journey #life #life is a #life is a journey #music

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures