Best 1688 quotes in «battle quotes» category

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

The next battle being fought by e-commerce companies will be for customer loyalty.

The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith's family. Our hearts go out to them. No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .

The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!

The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.

There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation.

There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

There are some who support us and others who are on the other side. They bow to pressure from the international community. But there is no reason for any of them to be against our Palestinian concerns. We don't interfere in any of the domestic policies of other countries. We are a national movement and we are concentrating on our conflict and the battle against the Israeli occupation.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

There is a culture of corruption in many parts of the Mexican media, of course. It seems that there are fewer and fewer media outlets that permit authentic free expressions. But Mexico also has extraordinary journalists who, despite the dangers they face, have also been leading the way in this battle, who've really played a role in keeping the cause of justice alive in the Ayotzinapa case. And no matter what, they'll keep doing that.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.

There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what happened? Was there a clash, a battle, a condemnation? There could have been, but there was none

The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.