Battle Quotes

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy

Win, Fighting, Finding

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

Forgive, Put, Sometimes

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
Alan Cumming

Blood, Interest, Coming

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
Asghar Farhadi

Good, War, Evil

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.
Denis Leary

Forget, Camera, Theater

It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.
Michelle Malkin

Country, Left, Scars

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Demian Bichir

Important, Evil, Decision

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
Dennis Chavez

Die, Worth, Fair

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
David Miliband

Politics, Simple, Confidence

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
Major Taylor

Against, Color, Prejudice

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
Al D'Amato

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
James Weldon Johnson

Learning, Today, Human

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Arthur Wellesley

Playing, Won, Fields

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Arthur Wellesley

Sad, Nothing, Lost

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Philip Roth

Age, Old, Massacre

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Nothing, Terrible, Cover

It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.
Gina Carano

Happy, Yourself, Everybody

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.
Kit Bond

Short, Service, Against

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams

Equality, Patience, Political

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Cal Thomas

Freedom, Lonely, Sometimes

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
Maggie Stiefvater

Fight, Able, Percent

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
Alan Cumming

Mind, Thought, Play

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Cheech Marin

Comedy, Won, Played

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Peace, Win, Against

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Good, Evil, Control

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.
Louise Brown

Women, Passion, Young

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.
Jude Law

Heart, Eyes, Fact

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
Christian Lous Lange

Against, State, Concept

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Looking, Anybody, Nor

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Jimmy Connors

Work, Fun, Longer

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