Top 1200 Battle Of Wits Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are being killed and imprisoned in their thousands. Theirs is a battle of the imagination, a battle for the redefinition of the meaning of civilisation, of the meaning of happiness, of the meaning of fulfilment.

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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

I read a lot of the battle that goes on between the ufologists, you know, the ones who think that UFOs are aliens, and the people who think that UFOs are demons. They battle with each other, and sometimes I interject comments, every now and then. Not as myself, but under another moniker.

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, "I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.

In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

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.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

He has attempted to muddy the waters, but I think anyone that watched the battle that we had - you know, there was a time for choosing, as Ronald Reagan put it, where there was a battle over amnesty. And some chose, like Sen. Marco Rubio, to stand with Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and support a massive amnesty plan.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

I've been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he's on my album. We did a one round battle on my album and that was just me capturing These Days.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.