Best Armies Proverbs
287 Armies quotes by 219 unique authors
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a…
— Zadie Smith
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
— Joseph Stalin
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as…
— Gloria Steinem
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
— John Stossel
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical…
— Lewis Thomas
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy…
— Lech Walesa
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one…
— H.G. Wells
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in…
— James A. Baldwin
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,…
— Matthew Arnold
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
— Cormac McCarthy
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
— Victor Hugo
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What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
— John Gresham Machen
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Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the…
— Steven Erikson
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
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Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of…
— Randy Alcorn
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The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting…
— Saddam Hussein
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And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.
— Jennifer Fallon
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Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I…
— Edmond Rostand
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I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
— Orson Scott Card
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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All…
— Abraham Lincoln
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