Quotes about war

"A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television."

Dietrich, Marlene on war   

"Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper."

Early, Gerald on war   

"The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity."

Graves, Robert on war   

"Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."

Heller, Joseph on war   

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."

Lennon, John on war   

"The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same)."

Mamet, David on war   

"The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction."

Twain, Mark on war   

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

Ustinov, Peter on war   

"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on war
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"To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize."

Breton, Andre on war   

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on war
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"Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake."

Rorty, Richard on war   

"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on war
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"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on war
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"If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations."

Albrecht, Karl on war   

"A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't."

Bauman, Al on war   

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha on war
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds."

Congreve, William on war   

"Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise."

Cooke, E. V. on war   

"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."

Crisp, Quentin on war   

"The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves."

Crook, Jayne on war   

"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny."

Fu Wu Ming on war   

"A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood"

Grant, Phillip C. on war   

"Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward."

Kreeshna on war
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"Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success."

Mandino, Og on war   

"People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?"

Melville, Herman on war   

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"What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?"

Osborne, John on war   

"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."

Penn, William on war   

"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."

Renard, Jules on war   

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."

Rockefeller, John D. on war   

"God's delays are not God's denials."

Schuller, Robert H. on war
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"Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed."

Talmud, The on war   

"Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies."

Towbridge, J. T. on war   

"Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it."

Unknown, Source on war   

"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."

Washington, Booker T. on war   

"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on war