What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you believe in yourself you can conquer all your battles in this world, be brave! — Sfiso MaAphula Ngema Copy Share Image
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There are days when I know I can conquer the world, but there are also days when all I do is run… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’ ‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.” — Robert Lyndon Copy Share Image
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image