Quotes with battle-wounds

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  • Leonard Cohen A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sun Tzu The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Aristide Briand A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Ferdinand Foch A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Ferdinand Foch A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Seneca A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Ann Landers All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Ann Macbeth All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord George Byron And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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