Top 1200 Great Battle Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

'Roar' is a film based on the tigers in the Sundarbans. It is the story of a battle between man and the beast.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy!

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

Costume is always the first layer of armour for going into battle in a new acting job.

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

I get recognized more for my 'Lip Sync Battle' than I do for being Spider-Man.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

The impact of battle stays with our veterans long after their time in uniform ends.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.