#war

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #forward #game #ideas #like

The coward only threatens when he is safe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #safe #threatens

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#behavior #courtesy #heart #love #outward

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#column #fifth #free #hinder #holland

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#carried #childhood #held #his #hurt

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#certainly #clergyman #fellow #fellow men #heart

I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly. ↗

— Joe Gold

#arnold schwarzenegger #balloon #belly #called #him

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

It's an important fact of life, war. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#important #important fact #life #war

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice