Battlefields Quotes - Page 4

• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technology, Thinking, Wish

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• Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Blood, Treatment, Shock

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• A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

  Murray Kempton

  War, Critics, Wounded

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• Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.

  Nile Kinnick

  Sports, Football, Country

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• If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

  Phil Bredesen

  Zero, War, Tennessee

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• I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Needs

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• I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Thinking, America

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• Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Talking, Athletic

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• FEARLESS is a vivid account of one man's journey from all-American boy to all-American hero. Blehm's writing takes you beyond the battlefield and right to the heart of the personal battles, sacrifices, and triumphs of one of America's elite warriors. Anyone looking for an inspiring story of inner strength and courage will be richly rewarded by this book.

  Eric Greitens

  Book, Hero, Writing

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• There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Lonely, Military, Marine Corps

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• It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

  Cornel West

  Fighting, Dark, Soul

  "Cornel West: Truth". Interview with Astra Taylor, killingthebuddha.com. November 15, 2009.

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• Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Bumps, Belief

  After World War II; quoted in the London Financial Times, 13 May 2003.

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• When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly free. You realize: I'm here, I'm in it. Exaltation. Suddenly you're hit by another extraordinary feeling: my God, I can be killed. And: will I embarrass myself? It's like you're in a kaleidoscope and all of these extraordinary feelings are zipping by.

  George Friedman

  War, Feelings, Risk

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

  Newt Gingrich

  Moving, Gun, Winning

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• Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

  Michelangelo

  Spiritual, Religious, War

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• George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Belief, Collide

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
  The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
  While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
  Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.

  Li Bai

  Veterans Day, Horse, Men

  Li Po, “Nefarious War”

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• The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Ideas, Realms

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• I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

  Duke of Wellington

  Attributes, Spots

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• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Trust, War, People

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• The world has been your battlefield. Everywhere you go, the blood of brothers and sons screams out against you. Perhaps you cannot yet hear it, because this soil is not your own. But you will... you will.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Brother, Son, Blood

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• It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

  Attila the Hun

  Decision, Finals, Captains

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• In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

  Rand Paul

  Father, War, Technology

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• Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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