Battle Quotes - Page 8

• The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

  John Shelby Spong

  Rights, Slavery, Silent

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• Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.

  Keith Devlin

  School, People, Awareness

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• A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.

  Primo Levi

  Strong, War, Acceptance

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• All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Fighting, Feelings

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• Rocky is a warrior, we've had a lot of great battles starting from when I was 16. He's a true team player, great fighter, and I have a ton of respect for him.

  Mike Brown

  Team, Warrior, Player

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• Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Knowing, Discipline

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• Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

  Faith Popcorn

  Fighting, Men, Sick

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• The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

  Irene Parlby

  Women, Gun, Voting

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• The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Fighting, Love Is

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• There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

  James Randi

  Strong, Philosophy, Class

  James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”

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• A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Data, Cry, Conspiracy

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• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Tools, Poor

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• What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Customs

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• The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.

  Alison Sweeney

  Games, Long, Mad

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

  Bill McKibben

  Ideas, Oil, Long

  "Environmentalists Cheer Keystone XL Pipeline Decision As 'Decisive Moment'". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.

  Randall Wallace

  Writing, Character, Dark

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

  Jason Jones

  War, Winning, Thinking

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime time in the main season. I suppose there are times when I might look at that and think that's the major league. But when you look at it, ultimately would I really want to gamble my livelihood and my ability to connect with my fan base or write a show that I really like writing, or in some cases direct a show that I really like directing, for the sake of winning an ego battle? It's totally not worth it. That stuff is so ephemeral.

  Matt Nix

  Writing, Winning, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've been trying to do a Western, nobody's interested in doing a Western, how can that be?

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Fighting, Years, Trying

  Source: deadline.com

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• There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

  Bernard Fanning

  Band, Psycho, Constant

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

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• Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Fighting, Russia

  Source: time.com

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• The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Victory, Moscow, Invincible

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• Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

  Peter Ustinov

  Humanity, Age, Culture

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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