Battlefields Quotes - Page 9

• The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Loneliness, Feelings

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• As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Passion, Vegetarian Diet

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• I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Sky, Titles, Wwf

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• I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  War, Believe, Heroism

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Chaos, Winner

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• Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Home, Warrior, Victory

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• Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Finding Yourself, Battle

  Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.10, Conari Press

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• The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

  Van Day Truex

  Strong, Color, Design

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• It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fall, Fighting

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.672, Penguin

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• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, War, Dying

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• There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Class, Feelings

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• People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Communication, People

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”, Intl Pub

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• Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Destiny, Energy

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

  Hal Moore

  Leadership, Niece, Flirting

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• I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world

  Brian Horrocks

  Military, World, Clubs

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• Тhe battlefield in the air will be the decisive one

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, Air

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• Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Art, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Stress, Kids

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• One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Society, Vietnam

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• What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.

  James Mattis

  Marine, Atrocities, Groups

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.

  Tim Kaine

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.

  Naomi Wolf

  United States, World, Whole

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.

  Kevin Maney

  Hockey, Ice, Games

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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