Battle Quotes
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
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The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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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?
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
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She was poison in a pretty bottle.
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But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
