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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career. -- Laura Donnelly
The first casualty when war comes is truth. -- Hiram Johnson
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. -- Candice Bergen
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. -- T. E. Lawrence
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. -- James Reston
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. -- Richard E. Grant
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success. -- Margaret Heffernan
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. -- Harry Browne
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. -- James Ellroy
But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me. -- Rick Allen
I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.' -- Kevin Costner
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored. -- Paul Begala
We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. -- Barack Obama
We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes. -- Teresa Medeiros
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. -- Alexander Cockburn
It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing. -- Joshua Slocum
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war. -- Barbara Boxer
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence. -- Dalai Lama
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification. -- Stanley Hauerwas
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. -- L. Neil Smith
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption. -- Thomas E. Mann
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High. -- Ethan Hawke
There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens. -- Rhys Ifans
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. -- George C. Marshall
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty. -- Paul Johnson
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
In war, the first casualty is truth. -- Terry Hayes
In war, truth is the first casualty. -- Aeschylus
First casualty of war, is the truth. -- Winston Churchill
The first casualty of war is innocence. -- Oliver Stone
Obviously, I pray every day there's less casualty. -- George W. Bush
Freedom is often the first casualty of war. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In war, truth is often the first casualty. -- Winston Churchill
Truth is always the first casualty of war. -- Aeschylus
The first casualty in every war is truth. -- Muriel Lester
The first casualty of war is casual wear. -- Brian Spellman
In war the first casualty is the truth. -- Aeschylus
In time of war the first casualty is truth. -- Boake Carter
A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. -- Mira Grant
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty -- Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity. -- Richard Paul Evans
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism. -- Robin Morgan
I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing. -- Christopher Dorner
We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method. -- Tommy Wonder
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior. -- Audre Lorde
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another. -- Paul Fussell
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. -- Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack. -- Cory Doctorow
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty. -- Jeff Greenfield
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized. -- Ken Follett
If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty -- Les Brown
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. -- Al Capone
Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror. -- Alberto Gonzales
The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are. -- Fred Barnes
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. -- James Reston
Regardless of sex, everyone loses something in a war. But the first casualty is always the truth. -- Brian K. Vaughan
There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon. -- Jay Leno
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. -- Harry Elmer Barnes
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. -- Daniel Goleman
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. -- Walter Raleigh
When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover. -- Michael Hyatt
During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this. -- Matthew Specktor
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves. -- David Lloyd George
I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell. -- Ann Coulter
Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear. -- Dylan Moran
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies. -- Harry M. Collins
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore. -- David Finkel
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling. -- Stephen Fry
...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization -- Alec Douglas-Home
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How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise. -- Price Pritchett
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