#war

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#backward #diaper #repaid #spells #think

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#inaction #our #poor #precedent #respect

The United States never lost a war or won a conference. ↗

— Will Rogers

#lost #never #states #united #united states

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#personal #personal goals #progress #steady #steady progress

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#first #first step #i #i think #little

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable. ↗

— Joan Jett

#better #black #clothes #comfortable #darker

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#awards #correspondents #dinner #go #house

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#last #president #thing #wanted #wartime

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#geared #i #i think #just #kids