Conquered Quotes

“I’m not here to make friends. Our forces successfully conquered their northern territories regardless of their deals. And I will take the rest of Tamoura next.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“Mercy is for the weak.
Peace is for the coward.
Tears are for the conquered.”
― Jay Kristoff, Aurora's End

“The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“Loving you is my greatest accomplishment. Hurting you will always be my biggest regret." -Theodore Ellis, Conquered.”
― L.P. Lovell

“If only love were so easily conquered, there wouldn't be so many broken hearts.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“God wants to use you as a divine show room, where the poor, the wearied and the depressed will find comfort and recreation! You got to be kind. It's a sign that you have conquered greed!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Do you take credit cards? I bet your pony would be worth a ride.”
― Cari Quinn, Undercover Lovers

“Do you like blowjobs? “Did you just ask me if I like blowjobs?” he asked in a low voice. “I swear that’s what it sounded like.” “Yes.” She folded her hands in front of her and met his gaze head-on. “I haven’t given nearly enough of them but I’d like to practice.”
― Cari Quinn, Undercover Lovers

“I did it again, Robert Childan informed himself. Impossible to avoid the topic. Because it's everywhere, in a book I happen to pick up or a record collection, in these bone napkin rings -- loot piled up by the conquerors. Pillage from my people.

Face facts. I'm trying to pretend that the Japanese and I are alike. But observe: even when I burst out as to my gratification that they won the war, that my nation is lost -- there's still no common ground. What words mean to me is a sharp contrast vis-à-vis them. Their brains are different. Souls likewise. Witness them drinking from English bone china cups, eating with U.S. silver, listening to Negro style of music. It's all on the surface. Advantage of wealth and power makes this available to them, but it's ersatz as the day is long.

Even the I Ching, which they've forced down our throats; it's Chinese. Borrowed from way back when. Whom are they fooling? Themselves? Pilfer customs right and left, wear, eat, talk, walk, as for instance consuming with gusto baked potato served with sour cream and chives, old-fashioned American dish added to their haul. But nobody fooled, I can tell you; me least of all.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“I wanted to, um, apologize for earlier. I can't believe I did that. I didn't think it could be real and—” “Didn’t think what could be real?” …Your penguin.”
― Cari Quinn, Undercover Lovers

“The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Every criminal has a good mind conquered by the devil”
― Munia Khan

“I Conquered Your Heart,it is My Kingdom and I'll rule it for Eternity - LOVE”
― Syed Sharukh

“Once our fears are conquered, what was once a mighty storm becomes a passing drizzle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Women are never conquered,
they just let themselves be conquered.”
― Augusto Branco

“When a man thinks of conquering a woman,
it is because he has already been conquered by her first.”
― Augusto Branco

“Women are never conquered,
they just let themselves be conquered.”
― Augusto Branco

“When a society is invaded and dominated by another, it can easily lose its sense of self, especially if the dominating group imposes a different language, culture, worldview and cosmology upon the conquered, stigmatizing their former ways of knowing and being in the world. The conquered become dislocated from their rootedness in the world, ontologically speaking... When a culture is severely compromised, it tends to lose control of its institutions, especially those that help it to understand itself.”
― Michael Newton

“It hath ever been the use of the conqueror to despise the language of the conquered, and to force him by all means to learn his.”
― Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland