Battle Quotes - Page 35

• A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

  Reza Aslan

  War, Drama, Believe

  Reza Aslan (2010). “Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization”, p.5, Random House

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• Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

  Julian Baggini

  Europe, Differences, Mind

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

  Helen Fisher

  Meaningful, Divorce, Thinking

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• But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Feminism, May

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• As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

  Stephen King

  Doubt, Mind, Would Be

  Stephen King (2016). “Desperation”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

  Nora Roberts

  Land, Dancing, Dreamer

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.14, Penguin

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• It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Stars, Real, Heart

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Sports, Kings

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• When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fighting, Puddles, Bottles

  Song: Fox In Socks

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• Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honor, Deeds, Lasts

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• God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Royal, Helping

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1776, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Pride

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• Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

  John Green

  Hipster, War, Winning

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.61, Penguin

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• And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO

  Ayn Rand

  Heart, Cutting, Ego

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

  William Butler Yeats

  Party, Character, Fighting

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• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ideas, Progress, Mark

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1951.

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• Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wrestling

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• A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Eye, Eight

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.133, Seven Stories Press

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• I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Argument, Wells

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [149]

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• 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.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Men, Light, Blood

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• I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Adversity, Giving, Growth

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Song, Slappers, Ends

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

  Edith Wharton

  Years, Long, Together

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

  Orson Scott Card

  Passion, Character, Men

  "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

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• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Air, Years, Land

  Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, G K Hall & Co

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