A Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Always Body Duel Fatigue Fear Mind Nature Own Sport True Which

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russian - Novelist
Born: July 18, 1933

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

Julia Quinn

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Carl von Clausewitz

Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

Brandon Sanderson

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

Yuri Gagarin

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.