Conqueror Quotes

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. — George Bernard Shaw
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. — Rita Mae Brown
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. — Sigmund Freud
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles… — Dag Hammarskjold
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. — William Dean Howells
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! — Joyce Meyer
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in… — Hassan Nasrallah
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The… — Steven Pinker
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. — Jean Rostand
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me… — Walt Whitman
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we… — Harlan Ellison
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for… — John Dryden
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident… — Joseph Conrad
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a… — Epictetus
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection… — Martin Luther
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and… — Zora Neale Hurston
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. — Arundhati Roy
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and… — Camille Paglia

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