Meg Rosoff Quotes

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

My life has been about big changes.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.