Battle Quotes

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

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.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.