Best Battlefield Wisdom
241 Battlefield quotes by 194 unique authors
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Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind…
— Douglas Coupland
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You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you…
— Connie Willis
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So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a…
— Brandon Mull
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That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
— William Gibson
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave…
— Will Durant
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I absolutely love you, Briony, and I am on my knees. So we're getting married - right? But say it fast before we get shot."…
— Christine Feehan
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Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in…
— Amy Carmichael
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
— Khalil Gibran
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
— Keith Richards
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Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't…
— Rick Riordan
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The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted…
— Kevin Hearne
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A theory is a battlefield in your head.
— Haruki Murakami
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Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.
— Joseph Heller
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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle;…
— David Gemmell
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to…
— Susanna Kearsley
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He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of…
— Dean Koontz
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His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.
— Rick Yancey
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A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands.…
— Rick Yancey
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The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise,…
— Rick Yancey
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And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
— Rick Yancey
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