Battlefields Quotes - Page 14

• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Civil War, Company

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

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• I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.

  Jordin Sparks

  Song, Thinking, Singing

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• 'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.

  Jordin Sparks

  Tattoo, Song, People

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• The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Powerful, Home

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• 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!

  Wilfred Owen

  Together, Language, Holding On

  Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Military, Hero, Fighting

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975

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• More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

  Joyce Maynard

  Tragedy, Comedy, Source

  "Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

  Michelle Malkin

  Birthday, Jobs, Ignorance

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  On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  Dan Lipinski

  Veterans Day, Military, Home

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• Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Simple, Skills

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• We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

  Dean Koontz

  War, Taken, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1113, Bantam

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• His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Understanding, Misunderstood, Language

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• A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Book, Victory

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