"Talking jaw is better than going to war."

--

Lord Randolph Churchill

#War Quotes #Talking Quotes #Going To War Quotes

“Woah! Calm down, Curly!”
“Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking...They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.”
“I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.”

Source : John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black
“The race to win turns us all into losers.”
“How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.”
“We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.”
“God is to be found not by stepping aside from the flow of daily life into religious moments and environments, or by looking away from creation to a spiritual realm beyond, but rather by entering attentively the depths of the present moment. There we will find God”
“Thou didst thy best, that is success.”

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