Battle Quotes

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

For me, it's the reactions from the audiences that are golden. If they enjoy it, then half the battle has been won.

Art cannot be above the battle.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

I'm a lover, not a fighter. No battles for me.

You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.

In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.

I did not glow with the thrill of battle. Cringe, yes. Glow, no.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

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

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

There's a quote that says, 'If you know yourself and you know your opponent, you shouldn't fear the results of 100 battles.' Just really being prepared gives you a lot of confidence.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.