Battlefields Quotes - Page 7

• You cannot choose your battlefield,
  The Gods do that for you;
  But you can plant a standard
  Where a standard never flew.

  Nathalia Crane

  Business, Society, Doe

  "The Singing Crow And Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("The Colors"), 1926.

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• I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Giving Up, Vampire

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Battle

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

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• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Victory And Defeat, Suffering

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sports, War, Night

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.21, Del Rey

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• A theory is a battlefield in your head.

  Haruki Murakami

  Theory

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.219, Random House

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• Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

  Anna Quindlen

  Courage, Heart, Character

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• Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

  Joseph Heller

  Innocence, States, Born

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• Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

  David Gemmell

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, War, Teaching

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Long, Trying, Warfare

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Initiative, Spears

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Business, Real, Army

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• Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Soldier, Battle

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• Reince has produced a fully funded, superbly staffed and technologically advanced strategy to position the GOP to win in '14 and '16, and he has done so via an inclusive outreach to all branches of the party while staying out of the bunker and in the MSM on a 24/7 basis. The Republicans cannot ask for more from the RNC than they have gotten and the political battlefield is as well prepared as it has been since 2004 as a result.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Party, Winning, Opportunity

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• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

  Samuel Fuller

  Fighting, Survival, There Is Hope

  In 'Guardian' 26 February 1991

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Kids, Heart

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.278, Penguin

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• I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love
  Got me look like baby Cupid
  Sending arrows from above

  Jay Sean

  Girl, Song, Baby

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• Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

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• They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Judging, Leader

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• As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, House, Slaughter

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

  Winston Churchill

  Leader, Soldier, Triumph

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?

  Rick Riordan

  June, Two, Battle

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• These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  Yann Martel

  Anger, Heart, People

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.110, Canongate Books

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