After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

She is elegant rather than belle.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer and sorrow blooms their soul.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

You must never tire fighting Satan.