Combatted Versus Quotes & Sayings

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier. — Mike Jackson

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. — Johan Huizinga

The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection. — Pitigrilli

The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations. — Hazel V. Carby

If he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design. — Benjamin Percy

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time. — Sue Monk Kidd

I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon, said the kid, gravely mistaken. — Michael Chabon

Children ... will never go astray while they are in good company. — Francis M. Lyman

The motive force of history is truth and not lies. — Leon Trotsky

Find the one thing you're good at and FOCUS on it. — Joyce Tenneson

You can come across a precipice not only in the mountains but in everywhere! If you don't like a person, there, a precipice appears; if you meet a person with a different faith, there, a precipice appears! The more mature, the more tolerant and the wiser you become, the less precipice will appear in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world. — Tom T. Hall

When you're depressed, it's like you pick up one of those shields in a video game, but instead of protecting your life power, it blocks you from being able to receive any affirmation or encouragement. — Sammy Rhodes

There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything. — David James Duncan

But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature. — Thomas Buergenthal