“Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
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“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”
Source: Then Came You
Remark (November 1914), Paul Dehn, Hindenburg, als Erzieher (1918), p. 12, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 74
Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East
“But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.”
Source: Born of Silence
Statement of 1942, at the start of the bombing campaign against Germany, as quoted in "Sir Arthur Harris & The Lancaster Bomber" at The British Postal Museum and Archive http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/ww2stamps-bomberharris
Context: The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
““Welcome to the GWOJ.”
“GWOJ?”
“Global War on Jones.””
Day 15
Reamde (2011), Part II: American Falls
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
Retort to a lady of Confederate sympathies, who berated him for the wasting of Mississippi by the Army of the Tennessee during the Meridian Campaign ; cited in The Civil War Generation, Norman K. Risjord, Rowman & Littlefield (2002), p. 143 : ISBN 0742521699</small> , and in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo, Oxford University Press (2012), p. 439 : <small>ISBN 0199843295
1860s, 1864
