Battlefields Quotes - Page 10

• Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together.

  Francis Chan

  War, Battle, Together

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• Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Fighting, Difficulty

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2013

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• Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Enemy, Bones

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• The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Simple, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Firsts, Prime

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• The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Writing, Korea, Achievement

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• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Bill Shuster

  Military, Moving, Fighting

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• Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government.... But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion.

  James Michael

  Kindness, School, Love Is

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• Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

  Michael Leunig

  War, Heart, People

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• On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Party, Rights

  "Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.

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• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

  James Joyce

  Buddhism, Civilization, Excellence

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2227, Delphi Classics

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• No study is possible on the battlefield.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Study

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

  William Manchester

  Tragedy, Events, Essentials

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Fighting, Class

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• Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.

  Geoff Davis

  Winning, Osama Bin Laden, Propaganda

  "House Republicans Respond to Murtha". Geoff Davis' remarks during news conference by House Republicans at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2005.

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• Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the
  prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Eye, Land, Heaven

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• The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Satan, Rage

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Soul, Impossible

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.161, Tara Publishing

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• Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Soldier, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

  Lauryn Hill

  War, Reading, Water

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• There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Hurt, Philosophy, People

  "Micmacs". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.

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• The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

  Joey Barton

  Birthday, Men, Iraq

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• When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ambition, Two, Mad

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.211, JHU Press

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• Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the omnipotent and insane idea of wanting to generically modify an entire nation. This idea was not on the outskirts of Nazi ideology, it was the heart of movement, that's what intrigued me. Mengele is the most extreme expression of this idea.

  Lucia Puenzo

  War, Heart, Doctors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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