Best 1688 quotes in «battle quotes» category

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 has always been a battle between good and evil.

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

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 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.

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.