Battle Quotes - Page 13

• Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Enemy, Surprise, Contact

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• Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

  Tim Sandlin

  Luck, Way, Normal

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• [N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

  Socrates

  Running, War, Fall

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• I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Stars, Reality

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Winning, Thinking, Loses

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Believe, Passion

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

  Ben Okri

  Fighting, Men

  Ben Okri (1980). “Flowers and shadows”

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• There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

  May Sarton

  Real, Fall, Bed

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.

  Bipasha Basu

  Sexy, Fun, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Moral, Standards, Changed

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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• Confidence begets confidence.
  Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
  Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Independent, Heaven, Soul

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Fall, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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  The real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Real, Thinking, Guy

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  Marcel Proust

  Suicide, Morning, Reading

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• Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Attitude, Writing, Expression

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• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

  Winston Churchill

  Queens, Winning, Vote

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Fighting, Erosion

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• I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Ideas, Trying

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Band, Loser, Audience

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• The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

  Tony Blair

  Progress, Socialism, Century

  "Tony Blair's full speech". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 1999.

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• Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

  Tony Blair

  Fighting, Successful, Together

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• The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

  Emo Philips

  Sex, Sleep, Long

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• Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Lying, Cameras

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