“Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
In order to battle gravity and keep a house standing, there must be solid support from the top of the roof, all… — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken. — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle…” — Burton Egbert Stevenson Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We are Jewish soldiers. Our battle orders include the rules of engagement and the Ten Commandments. The computer code of the F-35… — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Scholars of totalitarianism talk about the importance of this constant movement, this forever war, this need to do battle on behalf of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think that's part of the battle of defining yourself as an artist. You're constantly fighting the pressure from outside to be… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“In the third century BC, General Xiang Yu sent his army across the Yangtze River to take on the Qin dynasty. While… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
“Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant! — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“On days such as this, Death’s long shadow hung like a broken halo over everyone—a sign of things to come.” — R.W. Patterson Copy Share Image
“While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle. — Govinda Copy Share Image
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
I still DJ the same way, but I'm not a scratch-scratch-scratch battle DJ. No, I'll rock the house. I'm old school. — DJ Yella Copy Share Image
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
The hardest battle of our lives is between what we think we know, and what we really feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war. — Ami Ayalon Copy Share Image
“After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.” — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
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