Battle Quotes
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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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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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You need to get up early and get started, ... That's nice too. You don't have to sit and wait all day long for the game to come. I would anticipate us to come out ready to play and fired up and be real aggressive. Of course, they are going to be a real good football team too so it will probably be a real good battle.
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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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I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head.
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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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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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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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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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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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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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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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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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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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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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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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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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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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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
