259 Quotes on Battle

• The fiercest battles are fought within, where courage meets fear in glorious combat.

  Author: Sophia Grant

• Sometimes, the strongest battles are not the ones fought with weapons, but with kindness.

  Author: Haley Barker

• Life is a series of combats; thriving through them makes us stronger warriors.

  Author: Amelia West

• The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of others, but those who win battles we know nothing about.

  Author: Katherine Brooks

• When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

  Author: Neil Young

• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

  Author: William Yeats

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

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Man's fate in battle is worked out before the war begins.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

  Author: John Whittier

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

  Author: Ryan White

• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

  Author: Duke Wellington

• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Author: Arthur Wellesley

• The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

  Author: Arthur Wellesley

• Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

  Author: Arthur Wellesley

• To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

  Author: Crystal Waters

• A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

  Author: Murray Walker

• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Author: Alice Walker

• We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

  Author: Abdoulaye Wade

• The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

  Author: John Vinocur

• My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

  Author: Leon Uris

• I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

  Author: Donald Trump

• 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.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

  Author: Robert Trout

• Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  Author: Cal Thomas

• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  Author: Major Taylor

• He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

  Author: Tacitus

• In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

  Author: David Suzuki

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

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

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

  Author: Rod Stewart

• Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

  Author: Ronald Steel

• Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

  Author: Howard Staunton

• If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

  Author: William Sherman

• It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

  Author: Cybill Sheperd

• Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

  Author: George Shaw

• An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

  Author: George Shaw

• A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

  Author: Bill Scott

• It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  Author: Norman Schwarzkopf

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

  Author: David Sarnoff

• I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

  Author: Eric San

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  Author: Sallust

• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  Author: Damon Runyon

• I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

  Author: Isaac Rosenberg

• The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

  Author: Erwin Rommel

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

  Author: Erwin Rommel

• A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  Author: Feisal Rauf

• The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

  Author: J. Powell

• No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

  Author: Colin Powell

• The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

  Author: Terry Porter

• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Author: Titus Plautus

• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

  Author: Philo

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food.

  Author: Regis Philbin

• Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

  Author: Edmund Pendleton

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  Author: M. Peck

• Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

  Author: George Patton

• Battle is an orgy of disorder.

  Author: George Patton

• Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

  Author: George Patton

• The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

  Author: George Patton

• It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• 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.

  Author: Peter Pace

• Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

  Author: Robert Owen

• 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.

  Author: George Orwell

• During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

  Author: John Orr

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  Author: Origen

• We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

  Author: Mohammed Omar

• I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

  Author: Mohammed Omar

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

  Author: Maureen O'Hara

• This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.

  Author: Dave Obey

• The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

  Author: Greg Norman

• 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.

  Author: Peggy Noonan

• I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

  Author: Horatio Nelson

• People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

  Author: Benito Mussolini

• If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

  Author: Johann Most

• 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.

  Author: Johann Most

• I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

  Author: William Morris

• Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

  Author: Bernard Montgomery

• No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.

  Author: Helmuth Moltke

• In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

  Author: Wilson Mizner

• It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

  Author: John Mill

• A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

  Author: Golda Meir

• Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

  Author: John McHugh

• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  Author: Frances McDormand

• On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

  Author: John McCain

• I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

  Author: Peter Mayhew

• There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

  Author: Marc Maron

• The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory.

  Author: Bob Marley

• Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

  Author: Cheech Marin

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  Author: Orison Marden

• 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.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Author: Gabriel Marcel

• And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

  Author: Shirley Manson

• The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

  Author: David Mamet

• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• 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.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

  Author: Robert Ludlum

• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

  Author: Federico Lorca

• As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

  Author: James Longstreet

• Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

  Author: James Longstreet

• General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

  Author: James Longstreet

• General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

  Author: James Longstreet

• My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

  Author: James Longstreet

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Author: Vince Lombardi

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  Author: Ted Lindsay

• While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

  Author: John Linder

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

  Author: Ron Lewis

• 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.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

• 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.

  Author: Jude Law

• This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

  Author: Steve Largent

• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Author: Christian Lange

• All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

  Author: Ann Landers

• Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

  Author: Marquis Lafayette

• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  Author: Abraham Kuyper

• 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.

  Author: Fritz Kreisler

• No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

  Author: Robert Kirkman

• The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  Author: John Kennedy

• 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.

  Author: John Kellogg

• The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

  Author: John Keegan

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  Author: Walid Jumblatt

• Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

  Author: James Johnson

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  Author: Lara John

• If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

  Author: Henrik Ibsen

• A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

  Author: Henrik Ibsen

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

  Author: Brit Hume

• Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

  Author: Charles Houston

• Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

  Author: David Horowitz

• After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.

  Author: John Hood

• I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

  Author: John Hood

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  Author: Paul Hindenburg

• The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

  Author: Heinrich Himmler

• As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

  Author: Daniel Hill

• Everything is a battle with this band.

  Author: Kenny Hickey

• We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

  Author: Thor Heyerdahl

• The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

  Author: Frank Herbert

• We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  Author: Patrick Henry

• Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  Author: Douglas Haig

• Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

  Author: Che Guevara

• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  Author: Lisa Guerrero

• Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

  Author: Heinz Guderian

• It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

  Author: Lady Gregory

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  Author: Ulysses Grant

• Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

  Author: Joe Grant

• No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

  Author: Terry Goodkind

• You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

  Author: Al Goldstein

• I had a very public battle with anorexia.

  Author: Tracey Gold

• From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

  Author: Philip Gibbs

• It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

  Author: Philip Gibbs

• France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

  Author: Charles Gaulle

• On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

  Author: Richard Gallienne

• 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.

  Author: Neil Gaiman

• The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.

  Author: Antoine Fuqua

• Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

  Author: Dennis Franz

• Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• 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.

  Author: Shelby Foote

• World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

  Author: Ken Follett

• A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

  Author: Ferdinand Foch

• So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

  Author: Cyril Falls

• In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

  Author: William Falconer

• The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

  Author: William Falconer

• When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

  Author: Siobhan Fahey

• That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

  Author: Edward Everett

• 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.

  Author: Edward Everett

• Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

  Author: Susan Estrich

• I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

  Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth II

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Author: Larry Elder

• 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.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• Pessimism never won any battle.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

  Author: Anne Edwards

• She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

  Author: Anne Edwards

• It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

  Author: Dale Earnhardt

• The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

  Author: Robert Duvall

• There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

  Author: Georges Duhamel

• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

  Author: Frederick Douglass

• I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

  Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

• It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

  Author: Richard DeVos

• Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

  Author: Maurice Denis

• I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

  Author: Kool Dee

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

  Author: Dorothy Day

• Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

  Author: Ossie Davis

• We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

  Author: Al D'Amato

• A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

  Author: Tyne Daly

• You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

  Author: George Custer

• I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

  Author: Andrew Cuomo

• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  Author: e. cummings

• Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

  Author: Jimmy Connors

• Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

  Author: Robert Collier

• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

  Author: Leonard Cohen

• Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

  Author: Arthur Clough

• 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.

  Author: Tom Clancy

• But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  Author: Sandra Cisneros

• You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

  Author: Lydia Child

• For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

  Author: John Cheever

• If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

  Author: Dennis Chavez

• Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

  Author: Joshua Chamberlain

• We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.

  Author: Allan Carr

• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

  Author: Frank Carlucci

• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  Author: Cao

• When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

  Author: Dean Cain

• One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

  Author: John Burroughs

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  Author: Warren Burger

• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

  Author: Sitting Bull

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

  Author: William Brown

• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

  Author: Louise Brown

• The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

  Author: Arthur Brooks

• A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

  Author: Aristide Briand

• We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

  Author: Richard Branson

• Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

  Author: Kit Bond

• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  Author: Tony Blair

• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Author: Theodore Bikel

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

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

  Author: Mario Batali

• The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

  Author: Georges Bataille

• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  Author: James Baldwin

• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  Author: Owen Arthur

• I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

  Author: Roone Arledge

• It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

  Author: Brady Anderson

• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

  Author: Jack Adams

• It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

  Author: Floyd Abrams

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