(37 quotes found)
“I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awile. Then I shall rise and fight again. The title of champion may from time to time fall to others more than ourselves. But the heart, the spirit, and the soul of champions remains in Green Bay.”
Vince Lombardi
“And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: / And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? / And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.”
Bible
“Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.”
John Dryden
“So they went on until, when they met a boy, he slew him. (Musa) said: Have you slain an innocent person otherwise than for manslaughter? Certainly you have done an evil thing.”
quran
“Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? / In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.”
“And if indeed you die or you are slain, certainly to Allah shall you be gathered together.”
“If the red slayer thinks he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain, / They know not well the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And do not kill any one whom Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause, and whoever is slain unjustly, We have indeed given to his heir authority, so let him not exceed the just limits in slaying; surely he is aided.”
“Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.”
“Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.”