When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
Maureen O'Hara

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.
Murray Walker

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Heinrich Heine

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
William Morris

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
Jack Adams

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

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

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
Wynton Marsalis

Everything is a battle with this band.
Kenny Hickey

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

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

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Anthony Trollope

Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips

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 do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Ahmed Yassin

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