Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:
“Sam Tostin: You know I spent a lot of years disliking women. But I dont dislike you.
Major Hayward: Dont you?
Sam Tostin: Youre different. Youre not a woman. Youre more than that. Youre a mechanic.”
—Stanley Shapiro (19251990)
“Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combineda rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)
“... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply cant build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.”
—Anne Frank (19291945)