Battle Quotes
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A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.
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My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a prize for youngest band ever.
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It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the lives of decadence and they're faced with a battle, and you slide. Do they deserve the right to call themselves an army? Do these pirates who are basically languishing deserve the right to call themselves pirates? They're victims of their own success.
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
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Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
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The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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This is a big battle, ... There's no doubt statistically that there's been an undercount of massive proportions in Texas. No matter how hard we try, there's going to be one again.
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Everything I say about writing battles applies equally well in the boudoir.
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He's going to battle just like he has every year. Nothing's been given to him ever. This organization has always been in a position where we're trying to win. He's never had the opportunity to play every day and he's had to fight for everything's he's gotten and this spring it's going to be the same way. He's going to be fighting for his at-bats and to make a team. He's a very talented guy and usually you don't have a guy that talented in a situation like that.
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The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.
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My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.
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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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The hump I am trying to overcome right now is another me standing in the way. It is I versus I, really. It is overcoming the mental battle. I can say I am winning the battle right now.
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You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
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They are deeper than we are, they won the physical battle, no doubt about it. Their depth hurt us, their size hurt us ? and in tournaments you know they're going to be more physical.
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As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.
