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“Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.”

Humans Reality Faces Names Terrible Battle Threat Anticipation Human Freedom

Author:Robert Dale Owen

“I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.”

Knows Men Want Littles Made Play Choices Terrible Battle Uniforms Terrible Times

Author:Ben Kingsley

“My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

Believe Heart Lost Loss Poor Half Broken My Heart Terrible Battle Soldier Companion Melancholy Believe In Me Old Friends My Heart Is Broken

Author:Duke of Wellington

“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.”

Firsts Littles Bigs Remember Terrible Scene Battle Speech Paper Jokes Drawing Backgrounds Odd Covered Bubbles Sheets Carnage Odd Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.”

Victory Terrible Battle Worthy Invincible Moscow

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.”

Prayer Effort Terrible Battle Conflict Weapons Conscious Gods Will Earnest Our Prayers

Author:Peter Forsyth

“Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.”

People Seems Half Figures Terrible Battle

Author:Queen Latifah

“Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.”

Ifs Feels Found Social Laughing Fate Happened Terrible Battle Laughed Satisfying Yankees Amusement Incidents Amusing Battlefields Rest Of Life Saloons

Author:Larry McMurtry

“And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.”

Joy Song Sound Cities Terrible Battle Singing Fairs Host Rohan

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”

Play Three Heaven Mystery Terrible Battle Thousand Rain Blind Shining Snow Poetic Towers Fog Hostile Mist Highlights Swans Skyscraper Tresses

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.”

Trying Black Bears Terrible Battle Translations

Author:John Flanagan

“Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.”

Thinking Doe Sometimes Fall Imagine Sky Divine Terrible Battle Angel Ancient Scales Likes Back And Forth Triumphant

Author:Holly Black

“The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.”

Ifs Want Should War Dies Terrible Battle Cancer Stupidity Ashamed Nonsense Sponsors Malady Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality