Battle Quotes

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

We know that Libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. And there are many courageous Libyans who bear the scars of that battle.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.

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 battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.