Allies Quotes - Page 33

• Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Looks, Anxious

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could boink me into submission enroute to the vampire holding cell? Sweet holy Jesus, let me have hallucinated hearing that!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sweet, Jesus, Cells

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• From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

  Dan Brown

  Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Cutting, Love Is, Perhaps Love

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

  Darren Shan

  Night, Paris, Chaos

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• School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, School, Character

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• Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hurt, Fighting, Easy

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• Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Nuts, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

  Suzanne Collins

  Horse, Memories, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Personality, Mentor

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.233, Scholastic Inc.

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• We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

  John Boehner

  Israel, Stronger, World

  "Netanyahu, Obama meet at White House". www.cnn.com. March 24, 2010.

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• There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.

  Greg Louganis

  Athlete, Gay, Persistence

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• What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Doubt, World, States

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• You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Country, Silence

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.320, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Japan, Two

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• When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

  John O. Brennan

  Law, People, Tools

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

  James Madison

  Powerful, Government, Names

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.83

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• Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

  Dennis Prager

  Egypt, Iran, America

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• As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Opportunity, White, Diversity

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. March 18, 2014.

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• ... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Happiness, Garden, Earth

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• There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Order, Two

  "Persian Letters". No. 95, 1721.

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• The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his allies, change of consciousness sets in, and demoralization starts thawing the frozen heart. The game is over.

  Johan Galtung

  Heart, Winning, Games

  Johan Galtung, Carl G. Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen (2002). “Searching for peace: the road to TRANSCEND”, Pluto Pr

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• History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces fighting to protect and advance human rights. Those genuinely serving humanity always ultimately emerge triumphant. It is under their standards that the [Western] allies choose to throw in their lot for humanity's defense.

  Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

  Selfish, Struggle, Fighting

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