Battle Quotes

The appetites of the body were private battles.

Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

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

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.

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

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 final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.

A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.

The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.

A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

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

The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

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

Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

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

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

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

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.