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Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
— John Scalzi
When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'
— Darren Star
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
— Frank A. Clark
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
— Kara Walker
I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.
— Lindsay Wagner
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
— Dweezil Zappa
I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.
— Cass McCombs
I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.
— Carol Bartz
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
— Lauren Willig
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
— Chad Smith
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
— John Lithgow
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
— Damien Rice
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
— Simon Pegg
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
— Simon Pegg
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
— David Steinberg
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
— Emanuel Celler
I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.
— Jenji Kohan
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
— Vanessa Bayer
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
— Robert Klein
I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
— Harland Williams
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
— Ivan Reitman
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
— Norman Lear
I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
— Kristin Hersh
I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
— John Kricfalusi
Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
— John Kricfalusi
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
— Andrew Scott
My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry.
— Honeysuckle Weeks
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.
— Andrew Scott
There is a lack of humor in fashion. To me, it's always been the fun, cool industry to work in, and I always wanted people to be on my side and see how much fun we really have behind the scenes.
— Chris Benz
Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.
— Tom Bodett
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
— David Chase
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
— David Alan Grier
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
— Marian Seldes
I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.
— Jamie Farr
Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.
— Kevin Feige
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
— Ric Ocasek
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
— Dan Castellaneta
Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.
— Kreayshawn
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
— Hayley Atwell
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
— Suzanne Vega
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
— Treat Williams
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
— Jami Gertz
Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don't know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.
— Kunal Nayyar
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
— Jon Scieszka
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
— Gary Shteyngart
One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
— Zoey Deutch
I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
— Zoey Deutch
The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
— Mark Waters
The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.
— Michael Horse
When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.
— Dylan O'Brien
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
— Frank Oz
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
— Lana Turner
There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.
— Sasheer Zamata
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
— Jensen Ackles
I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.
— George Cukor
My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.
— Karen Duffy
It's very hard to write humor.
— Mark Strand
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
— Brendan Coyle
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
— Brendan Coyle
I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.
— Cecily von Ziegesar
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
— Jasper Fforde
'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.
— Mary Lynn Rajskub
There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
— Fede Alvarez
I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
— Naomi Judd
A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.
— Si Robertson
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
— Jonathan Winters
We do not take humor seriously enough.
— Konrad Lorenz
I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
— Jonny Lee Miller
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
— Maira Kalman
He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.
— Jeremy Northam
The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
— Stephen Collins
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
— Carrie Preston
I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.
— Jemima Kirke
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
— Lynn Shelton
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
— Hattie McDaniel
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
— Herb Caen
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
— Francoise Sagan
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
— Patricia Highsmith
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
— David Hyde Pierce
Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.
— John Ross Bowie
But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
— Jason Biggs
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
— Lawrence Kasdan
I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
— Sarah Chalke
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
— Milos Forman
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
— Wavy Gravy
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
— Mike Rowe
G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.
— Nelson DeMille
A boy is naturally full of humor.
— Robert Powell
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
— Jonathan Shapiro
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
— Dabney Coleman
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
— Patrick Warburton
I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
— Lance Reddick
As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
— John Wells
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
— John Wells
I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.
— Colman Domingo
I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
— Kate Klise
I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.
— Megan Amram
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
— Thomas Browne
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.
— Jessica Hagedorn
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
— Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
— Agnes Repplier
'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.
— Steven Bochco
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
— Max Frisch
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
— Shelley Berman
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
— Anjelica Huston
If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
— Eric San
Humor is healing.
— Brad Garrett
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
— Michael Showalter
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
— Billy Gardell
I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.
— Stephen J. Cannell
John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters.
— Bobby Keys
The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.
— James Adomian
In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
— Bea Arthur
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
— Robert Mankoff
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.
— Robert Mankoff
The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
— Robert Mankoff
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
— Robert Mankoff
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
— Robert Mankoff
Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
— Jill McCorkle
Humor is the truth wit is an exaggeration of the truth. 
— Stan Laurel
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
— Lionel Trilling
I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
— Allan Gurganus
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
— Tabitha Soren
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
— Colm Meaney
All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.
— Kurt Sutter
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
— Colm Meaney
Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
— Jean Pigozzi
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
— Jack Germond
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
— Jonathan Tropper
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
— Jason Kilar
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.
— Chris Jordan
I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
— Nicole Appleton
If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
— Jennifer Nettles
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
— Shel Silverstein
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
— J. Tillman
I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
— Debbie Gibson
We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
— Shawn Wayans
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
— Richard Lewis
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
— William Temple
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
— Kate Clinton
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
— Max Eastman
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
— Bil Keane
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
— Don Herold
If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.
— Mathieu Amalric
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
— Bill Forsyth
I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
— Robert Lopez
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
— Dav Pilkey
A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.
— Josh Bowman
A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.
— Elizabeth Gillies
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
— Sid Caesar
I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
— Nigel Cole
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
— Claire Scovell LaZebnik
One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.
— Diane English
I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.
— Kurt Fuller
Gags die, humor doesn't.
— Jack Benny
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
— Alice Meynell
So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.
— Jerry Robinson
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
— Irvin S. Cobb
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
— William Collins
If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.
— Malcolm D. Lee
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
— Phil Keoghan
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
— Will Durst
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
— Rebecca Wells
I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
— Pam Dawber
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
— Mary Kay Blakely
I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
— Carlos Ponce
Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
— Regina Hall
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
— Emmett Kelly
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
— Larry Gelbart
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
— Graham Kerr
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
— Romain Gary
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
— Michael Levitt
You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
— Paige Turco
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
— Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
— Donald Trump
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
— Isabel Allende
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
— Sun Tzu
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
— Pope Francis
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
— George S. Patton
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
— Bertrand Russell
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
— Carly Simon
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
— Douglas MacArthur
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. 
— George S. Patton
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
— Mao Zedong
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
— George Washington
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
— Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
— Sun Tzu
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
— John F. Kennedy
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
— Richard M. Nixon
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
— Herbert Hoover
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
— Richard M. Nixon
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
— Sun Tzu
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
— Thomas Hobbes
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
— Chris Kyle
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
— Virginia Postrel
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
— Thomas Hobbes
In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.
— Dean Ornish
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
— Walter Dean Myers
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
— Winston Churchill
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
— Daryn Kagan
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
— John F. Kerry
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
— Doc Hastings
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country. 
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Quickness is the essence of the war.
— Sun Tzu
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
— Chung Mong-joon
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
— Ulysses S. Grant
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
— Robert E. Lee
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. 
— Niccolo Machiavelli
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
— Richard Holbrooke
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
— Benjamin Franklin
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
— Pope Benedict XVI
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
— George Washington
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
— John F. Kennedy
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
— Jack Ma
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
— Euripides
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
— Herbert Hoover
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
— Otto von Bismarck
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
— Charles B. Rangel
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
— Noam Chomsky
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
— Harrison Ford
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
— Feist
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
— Lester B. Pearson
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
— John Adams
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
— Vladimir Putin
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
— Walter Cronkite
This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.
— James P. Hoffa
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
— George Orwell
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
— Henry Knox
We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
— Elton John
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
— Ken Follett
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
— Ernest Hemingway
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
— Elon Musk
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.
— Donald Trump
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
— Joseph Rotblat
The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
— John C. Calhoun
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
— John F. Kennedy
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
— Herman Kahn
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
— Jacques Chirac
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
— Wendell Phillips
I have not yet begun to fight!
— John Paul Jones
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
— George Orwell
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war only patriots and traitors. 
— Stephen Douglas
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
— Chiang Kai-shek
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.
— Monica Bellucci
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
— Jonathan Haidt
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
— Susan B. Anthony
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
— Rick Warren
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
— Julius Caesar
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
— Stephen Hawking
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
— Sun Tzu
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
— Sebastian Junger
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
— Neville Chamberlain
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
— Anthony Joshua
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
— Plato
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
— Otto von Bismarck
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
— George S. Patton
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
— Otto von Bismarck
To hold a pen is to be at war.
— Voltaire
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. 
— Maria Montessori
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
— T. E. Lawrence
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
— Patricia Cornwell
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
— John F. Kennedy
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
— Herodotus
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
— George W. Bush
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
— John F. Kennedy
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
— Kim Il-sung
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
— George McGovern
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
— Ludwig von Mises
We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
— Ban Ki-moon
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
— Henry Kissinger
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
— Heraclitus