Best 1688 quotes in «battle quotes» category

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.

Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.

That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?

That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.

That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

The appetites of the body were private battles.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.