Ernest Hemingway Quotes

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.