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  • 'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.

    Tattoo   Song   People  
  • We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

    Mother   War   Believe  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

    Soccer   War   Marine  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

  • Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

    Eye   Land   Heaven  
  • America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

  • Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.

  • This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

    Struggle   Moving   Fall  
  • History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

    Kings   Food   Names  
  • If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

    Zero   War   Tennessee  
  • The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.

    Sports   War   Night  
    Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.21, Del Rey
  • A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.

  • When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

    Ambition   Two   Mad  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.211, JHU Press
  • A theory is a battlefield in your head.

    Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.219, Random House
  • A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield.

    Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.
  • The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

  • It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

    Marriage   Sex   Prayer  
  • As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

  • Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

    Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions
  • Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

    Prayer   Enemy   Bones  
  • Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

    Long   Earth   Way  
    Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

    War   Society   Vietnam  
  • Reince has produced a fully funded, superbly staffed and technologically advanced strategy to position the GOP to win in '14 and '16, and he has done so via an inclusive outreach to all branches of the party while staying out of the bunker and in the MSM on a 24/7 basis. The Republicans cannot ask for more from the RNC than they have gotten and the political battlefield is as well prepared as it has been since 2004 as a result.

  • The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

    Morning   War   Iraq  
  • Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

    War   Civil War   Company  
    Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House
  • American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

  • Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

    Home   Warrior   Victory  
  • Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, weve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

  • Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you!

    Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.44, CLC Publications
  • Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

    Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975
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