"One dictum I had learned on the battlefields……" — Diana Gabaldon
"One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough."
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204 Quotes by Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon has 204 quotes on this site.
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It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in…
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If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.
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And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.
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Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
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I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take…
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I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and…
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Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
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When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve…
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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive…
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Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat…
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I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me…
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Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at…
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More Battlefields Quotes
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which…
— Carl Sagan
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Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields…
— Hassan al-Banna
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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields,…
— Walt Whitman
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must…
— Randy Neugebauer
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The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect…
— Henry Waxman
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along…
— Charles Duhigg
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of…
— Nile Kinnick
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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
— Alfred M. Gray
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