Top 100 Quotes About Conquered
#1. A thousand years of dominion went ringing across the Thames like a trumpet blast. Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Norman ancestry combined in a chord that had deafened and conquered nations. It expected the moon to bow the knee. If not, so much the worse for the moon.
Ariana Franklin
#2. We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.
Victor Serge
#3. My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
Manmohan Singh
#4. The kind of cry a woman gave when a man conquered her and she realized she loved it.
Tessa Bailey
#5. Zanuta looked into the face of the faithful courier. "I have conquered the world, but I have never killed a man.
Paul W.S. Bowler
#6. His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
J.K. Rowling
#7. Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.
Rebecca Solnit
#8. The Nazi leaders ... .treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored
Sebastian Haffner
#9. He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.
T.H. White
#10. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
Anonymous
#11. Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
Simone De Beauvoir
#12. When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.
Publilius Syrus
#13. I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#14. Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.
Osho
#15. I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.
Faraaz Kazi
#16. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.
Douglas Wilson
#17. The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#18. Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Hjalmar Schacht
#19. Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
Milan Kundera
#20. In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth ... Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.
Adolf Hitler
#21. Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.
Arthur C. Clarke
#22. Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#23. Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?
Hermann Hesse
#24. Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
Horace
#25. The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
Seneca The Younger
#26. seen Nineveh repent a century earlier (see the book of Jonah), but the city had fallen back into wickedness. Assyria, the world power controlling the Fertile Crescent, seemed unstoppable. Its ruthless and savage warriors had already conquered Israel, the northern kingdom,
Anonymous
#27. I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.
Marianne Williamson
#28. Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
William Wallace
#29. No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.
Juli Inkster
#30. In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. The mob has conquered completely. When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.
Richard Wright
#31. Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ's] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph!
Billy Graham
#32. Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.
Mas Oyama
#33. There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
Baron De Montesquieu
#34. Once you've surrendered yourself to another, you've been conquered. Surrender = vulnerability. Vulnerability means someone else has the advantage over you. Still interested?
Donna Lynn Hope
#35. Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
Lucius Accius
#36. When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body
it will all get conquered like this.
Ajahn Chah
#37. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
Samuel Johnson
#38. Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.
Sheri Dew
#39. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is a game in which he who loses wins.
Victor Hugo
#40. I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
Mary Parker Follett
#41. Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.
Jean Chretien
#42. Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.
Ludwig Von Mises
#43. Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.
Lucretius
#44. Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#45. The United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
John F. Kennedy
#46. Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
Arthur Keith
#47. The sums acquired by the administrators of this domaine extraordinaire in the period of France's zenith were quite remarkable and in some ways foreshadow Nazi Germany's plunder of its satellites and conquered foes during the Second World War.
Paul Kennedy
#48. The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
Helen Keller
#49. Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.
Frank Miller
#51. We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.
Wilhelm II
#52. Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering".
Billy Graham
#53. It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism ...
Ernest Renan
#55. All fear is the same no matter the cause of it; you conquer or are conquered by it. I wasn't into losing, not even to myself, maybe especially to myself.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.
Dawn Powell
#58. I didn't feel the need to rub it in to every cheeseburger I conquered.
Stephenie Meyer
#59. When you found yourself carrying another life inside you, and you were only a child yourself, you'd automatically forget all about the grunts and pains of labour. What had truly conquered your whole thoughts then were the shock, shame and panic.
Diyar Harraz
#60. To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.
Aleksandr Voinov
#62. I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.
Eve Ensler
#63. It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
[Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]
Julius Caesar
#64. There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Agathon
#65. Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.
John Dewey
#66. Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
Thaddeus Stevens
#68. She was disquietingly fluid - fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now.
James Baldwin
#69. India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
#70. He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of anything.
Paulo Coelho
#71. Truth cannot be raided; it is attained through surrender, not through struggle. It is conquered through total surrender.
Osho
#72. I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#74. Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#77. He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes
#78. Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
Alexander The Great
#79. In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms
Anton Chekhov
#80. Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
Maria Sibylla Merian
#82. Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?
Polybius
#83. No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Thomas Carlyle
#84. A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
John C. Wright
#85. Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.
Robert A. Nisbet
#86. Love has many mysteries, and this first infatuation is also a mystery, even if a minor one - most people who rush into it get engaged or indulge in other foolish pranks, and then it's all over with the twinkling of an eye and they don't know what they have conquered or what they have lost.
Soren Kierkegaard
#88. It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.
John Climacus
#90. The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
Bertolt Brecht
#91. I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
Robert A. Heinlein
#93. England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.
Thomas Gray
#94. Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
Baruch Spinoza
#95. I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
Patrick Troughton
#96. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vice.
George Orwell
#97. War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#98. Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
#99. The idea of marrying Lukan made her skin crawl. He was a Chenayan. She, a Norin. He was her conqueror. She, his conquered. He had been born and raised to lord over her. She had been born and raised to hate him. They might as well have been different species.
Gwynn White
#100. Lofty peaks of ambition remain to be conquered. With inner strength and fortitude. And a positive attitude, above all.
Rashmi Bansal