#warfare

When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the earth. It was very beautiful, but he recognized them for Chinese rockets. ↗

— Pat Frank

#warfare #beauty

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny. ↗

— Jeff W. Horton

#cybersp-ce #science-fiction #techno-thriller #change

Spiritual giants are only willing, available and thirsty spiritual babies who paid the price for the prize, who waged a war for the victims to become victors, just like the courageous Davids that kill the big Goliaths. ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#spiritual-warfare #warfare-prayers #courage

Without a shadow of doubt, God created man. Man was designed, planned, and well thought-out. He was a deliberate part of God’s plan, not a last-minute addition. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#design

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes! ↗

— Nathan Parks

#angels-and-demons #dark #darkfantasy #demons #religious

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story. ↗

— Donald Miller

#spiritual-warfare #testimony #experience

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy! ↗

— Frans de Waal

#cooperation #empathy #evolution #frans-de-waal #male-dominance

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#class-warfare #economics #economics-greed #economics-money #inequality

His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear now. Mostly, it was eerily quiet. Even the insects had ceased their music. ↗

— Derek Donais

#war #warfare #warriors #men

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#war #nature