Battlefields Quotes - Page 13

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

Oscar W. Firkins

Eye, Reality, Men

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Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Military, Mean, Air

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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

Abraham Lincoln

Dedication, Ideas, Two

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Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

Matsuo Basho

Men, Color, Example

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We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

Wesley Clark

Air, Patterns, Way

"NATO: Aerial photo may show mass graves in Kosovo". www.cnn.com. April 11, 1999.

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There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

Robert Toombs

Country, War, Fighting

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Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Grows

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There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

Thiruvalluvar

Society, May, Faces

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In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Country, Yoga

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In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, War, Yoga

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Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

Frederick Lenz

Karma, Jobs, Yoga

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When you train, you should train as if on the battlefield. Make your eyes glare, lower your shoulders and harden your body. If you train with the same intensity and spirit as though you are striking and blocking against an actual opponent, you will naturally develop the same attitude as on a battlefield

Anko Itosu

Attitude, Block, Eye

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We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

Lance B. Wickman

Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

Lierre Keith

Men, Hatred, United States

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The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

Winston Churchill

Christian, War, Struggle

"The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

Adolf Hitler

Children, Fighting, Battle

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[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

Mitt Romney

Fun, Book, Mean

"Romney Favors Hubbard Novel" by Jim Rutenberg, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2007.

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From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

Alan Keyes

War, Hero, Liberty

Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.

Gao Xingjian

Beautiful, Spiritual, Literature

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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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'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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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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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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Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

Ahmed Yassin

Change, Land, Desire

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