Evan Esar Quotes
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Ulysses S. Grant -
To master fear is the most important battle to win.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
There may be one million people who love me, there may be 10 million people who hate me. What do I do? I go to battle for those 1 million people.
Allen Iverson -
This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
Jay-Z -
Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.
N.D. Wilson -
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
Danielle Trussoni
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I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
Kristen Stewart -
Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
Gabrielle Roth -
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
Aristotle -
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
Thomas Hobbes -
Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
Virginia Foxx
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The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
William Wells Brown -
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.
Scipio Africanus -
Life is brief but love is LONG.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.
Taylor York Paramore
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Life is a party. Dress for it.
Audrey Hepburn -
It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.
Kevin Keegan -
I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
Michael Caine -
Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
Evan Esar