Conquered Quotes
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato -
To work with threads seemed sissy to me. I wanted something to be conquered. But circumstances held me to threads and they won me over.
Anni Albers
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So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.
Alice Borchardt -
Conquer or be conquered.
David Farragut -
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
Tacitus -
When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.
Conn Iggulden -
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Thomas Carlyle -
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
Norman Angell
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
Stephen King -
There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
Alexander the Great -
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
Blaise Pascal -
Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
Bill Willingham -
It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
Epictetus
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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 Hubbell Chapin -
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
Rick Moody