Quotes with battle-field

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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Don Piatt Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
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  • Henry Giles Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • James Baldwin Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ben Stein Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bill Brandt Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Eugene Field Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
    Eugene Field
    American writer (1850 - 1895)
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  • Cam Newton Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Voltaire My life is a battle.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alonzo Church Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Winston Churchill Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Enoch Powell No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • John O'Brian No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
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  • Mark Twain No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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