Top 1200 Battle Scars Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

I think what we have going in the Casino Battle Royale is going to show people an exciting, different take on the traditional battle royal format, different than what anybody has done. It's not going to be two hours of battle royals. It's going to be really, really action-packed.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.

Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

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.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Life remains the same for me. It's always been a battle against injustice and corruption. That battle goes on.

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

There's that layering of selves that we can have with someone else across a long relationship. I go to the baths, the Korean spa. I love looking at the maps of people's bodies. The women have so many mastectomy scars and ectopic pregnancy scars and stretch marks, and all these things are amazing and wondrous to me. I guess I find it stranger not to attend to flux than to attend to it. But in a relationship it's also scary - you don't know where you're going to end up when you go through change.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

I think the working men and women are getting hammered right now. They want someone they can trust to stand with them. And part of the reason so many conservatives are uniting behind our campaign is, I'm the only one who led the battle against amnesty, has led the battle to secure the borders, has led the battle for the working men and women of this country.

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.