Battle Quotes - Page 30

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Funny, Writing, Fate

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Death, Country

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• Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Fate, Men, Tactics

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, France, Lost

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• 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.

  Al Goldstein

  New York, Fighting, Needs

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• As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

  Michael Gove

  Children, Men, People

  "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.

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

  Lady Gregory

  Use, Toothbrushes

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• 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.

  Che Guevara

  Hands, Umpires, Political

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• You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

  Alexander Haig

  War, President, Cuba

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• If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

  Kirk Hammett

  Guitar, Play, Laid Back

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• But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

  Tom Hanks

  Loneliness, Fighting, Different

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

  Tom Hanks

  Fighting, Self, People

  "Tom Hanks Talks Captain Phillips, Meeting the Real Title Character, Filming on a Lifeboat, Shooting the Movie’s Final Scene and Working with the U.S. Navy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2013.

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• All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Fighting, Men

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• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  Ira Hayes

  Real, Hero, Firefighter

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Soldier, Funny Wedding, Sexuality

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• I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

  Chris Hemsworth

  People, Eras, Vikings

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• 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.

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, Mean, Brave

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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

  Frank Herbert

  Conflict, Wealth, Stakes

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• In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Fighting, Cutting, Winning

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• 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.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Reality, Axes, People

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• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Desire, Literature

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Winning, Forever, Goes On

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• 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Fighting, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.125, Broadview Press

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• We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

  James P. Hoffa

  War, Party, Eye

  "Hoffa on Tea Party: 'Take These Son-of-a-Bitches Out'". www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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