Battle Quotes
2471 quotes by 1692 authors
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,…
— Erma Bombeck
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other,…
— Alain de Botton
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait…
— Omar N. Bradley
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You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles.…
— Terry Bradshaw
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We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have…
— Richard Branson
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I…
— Alton Brown
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.…
— Sitting Bull
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