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“I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”

Ifs Persons Asks Church Levels Blood Fields Battle Wounds Heal Useless Hospitals Sugar Injured Cholesterol Blood Sugar High Cholesterol

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.”

War Fields Inspire Horror Battle Sufficient Combat Horror Of War

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.”

Ifs Fields Battle Bases Beach Marine Captured Pacific Marine Corps Caribbean Playing Fields Waterloo

Author:Holland Smith

“I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.”

“Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.”

Fields Battle Strategy Unhappy

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.”

Fields Arms Battle Soldier Laboratory Chemist

Author:Louis Pasteur

“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.”

Men Believe Dies White Fields Battle Medicine White Man Injured Lingering

Book:Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

“The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.”

Men Artist Struggle Fields Battle Essentials Ordinary Ordinary Man

Author:Andre Malraux

“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.”

Knows Wells Littles Doe Order Deals Study Fields Truth Is Battle

Book:Precepts and Judgments

Source: Precepts and Judgments

“Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.”

Source: Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls

“When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.”

Ifs Long Winning Force Fields Amount Battle Long Time Army Edges Dull Provision Transportation Supplies Blunt Insufficient

Author:Sun Tzu

“Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.”

War Hands Light Fields Like You Arms Battle Tasks Lays Track Quitting Brands Pens Blades Crooked Rifles Reins Fling Spades Bayonets Horsemen Toiling Plies

Author:William C. Bryant

“Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.”

May Soul Moments Powerful Virtue Fields Ready Battle Army Vices Combination Opponents Encounters

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.”

Sex Fields Battle Sexuality Biology

Author:Nancy Friday

“A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.”

Men Christian Evil Christianity Enemy Fields Battle Mouths Soldier Conquer Cannons

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.”

People Ifs Has Beens Country Lasts Heaven Poor Lord Blood Land Fields Arms Battle Hundred Foundation Slave Soldier Bones Sweat Shelter Peasants Mansions Be A Slave Saturated

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.”

Ifs Should War Attitude Advice Fields Battle Offers Newspapers Superiors Suits Preserves Suggestions Etiquette Respectful

Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.”

Ifs Long Matter Lost Walks Fields Internet Battle Hundred Opponents

Author:Edward Snowden

“Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'”

Knows Needs Home Remember Strong President Support Security Military Fields Duty Needed Battle Defense National Security Commanders Insert National Defense

Author:Ryan Zinke

“The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.”

Ifs Children War Real Fields Battle Witness Grandchildren Harbors Blast Mortar Bayonets

Author:Oliver DeMille

“It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.”

Spiritual Fighting Lost Prayer Enemy Fields Battle Critical Presence Of God Intercession Intercessory Prayer Prevailing Prayer

Author:John Henry Jowett

“Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.”

Fields Battle Very Good Soldier Darling Good Soldiers

Author:Tonto Dikeh

“We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.”

Ideas Winning Given Interest Levels Special Fields Battle Fairs Election Checks Contribution Voters Usual Ideological Special Interests Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:John McCain

“The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.”

Ifs Mind Wells Heart War Fields Battle Internals Affected Heart And Mind

Author:Brenda Strong

“I knew very little about Rugby. But, I think it helps in terms of an American audience the game is enough like football in that it's a battle for field position and you score by running into what looks a lot like an end zone. I think in terms the nuance of the game, Americans won't get that stuff. I think in terms of the peanut butter and jelly version of what you need to know, I think it's pretty clear.”

“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”

Source: What it Takes to be Number One

“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”

Has Beens War Lost Fields Battle Opening Playing Fields Waterloo Eton

Author:George Orwell

“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”

Pain Motivation Causes Enemy Fields Battle Degrees Consequence Defeat Acres

Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.”

Looks Law Literature Taken Fields Battle Relation Islam Patterns Etc Thrones

Author:Annie Besant

“I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”

Thinking Names Military Fields Battle Fame Newspapers Civil War

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

Fields Flower Battle Bed Rose Bed Of Roses

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”

Has Beens Eye Fire Fields Battle Soldier Baptized Ranking Baptized In

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.”

World Way Humans Fighting Individual Military Fields Habit Battle Mathematics Strategy Arise Contact Agriculture Harvest Tactics Multiplicity Tactics And Strategy

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

Men Giving Trying May Said Moments Might Remember Desire Forget Fields Fool Victory Battle Despair Illusion Breaths Philosopher Conquer Folly Now And Then Forget It Fury Mausoleum

Author:William Faulkner

“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

War Life Is Asks Fields Honor Battle

Book:MILA 18

Source: MILA 18

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”

Home Body Faces Order Given Nations Grief Dog Fields Tears Masters Scene Battle Findings Decided Lays Soldier I Realized Deserted Licking Dog Loss Bonaparte

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”

Men Inspirational Art Names Memories Fields Battle Daughter Built Beloved Desperate Hanging Out Dwelling Garments Banner

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.”

Men Kind Littles War Soul Hands Lying Dies Fighting Born Sky Fields Lovers Battle Thousand Glory Kingdoms Ran Thirst Corpses Babe Maidens Drills Unexplained

Book:War Is Kind

Source: War Is Kind

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.”

Ifs Way Moments Games Realizing Air Fields Huge Kings Battle Hundred Horse Green Clean Golf Clubs Holes Dragons Yards Rabbits Exaggeration Goblin Rabbit Holes Green Fields

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.”

“Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.”

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

Men Said Fields Fool Victory Battle Despair Losing Illusion Philosopher Folly Fury Mausoleum

Author:William Faulkner

“The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.”

Bigs White Cities Sky Fields Battle Moon Gun Shadow Cat Lays Wheels Sunset Maps Abandoned Interiors Carriages Full Moon Lonesome Thoughts Of You

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald