Battle Quotes

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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and… — Edward Everett
In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....… — James Russell Lowell
Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love,… — Dan B. Allender
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… — Thomas Carlyle
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as… — Walter Lippmann
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… — Virginia Woolf
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. — Thomas Carlyle
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from… — Sigmund Freud
And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win. — James A. Baldwin
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has… — David Quammen
We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real… — Barack Obama
Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but… — Bulleh Shah
Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. — William Ralph Inge
Finding the tool is often half the battle. — Andy Rooney
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. — George Santayana
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin
Not even Ares battles against necessity. — Sophocles
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all. — Heinrich Heine
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money. — Ronald Reagan
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun

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