Battle Quotes
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.
'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.
What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.
For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.
People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.
As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.
You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.
Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.
When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. You will see that nothing is, really.
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.
Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.
There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
