Battle Quotations | Page 4

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

The appetites of the body were private battles.

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

We did battle back. We just didn't get in a groove at all.

We'd get close, then we'd make a bad decision or not be able to finish off a defensive possession with a rebound and things like that. They'd go from up one to five; then we'd have to fight back. It was just an uphill battle all night.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

We defeated Nebraska by about 50 pins which created a lot of excitement for us. On Sunday we played well in spots but lost focus at times and were unable to battle back.

We decided to bring the entire town together, ... We can have a bake sale, battle of the bands, raffles - anything we can think of that will bring in funds to help those poor people who have lost everything.

We decided that we're not going to try and do it again (in future games). It's a testament to our team that we believe in ourselves and can battle back.

We tried to battle back. Obviously, playing against Detroit down four goals, it's a hard task to do. It's mental mistakes in our own zone that cost us tonight.

We really had to battle for it, and the girls made tremendous improvement throughout the season. They have played so well in the second half of league, and that was our goal.

We really feel that our wide receiver position is set, and we feel good about that. Now they aren't battle tested in games but they've taken the first big step to getting there.

We really feel good. We came here planning on winning five games so we have passed the first two steps and played pretty well. We have to be ready to play tomorrow and can battle anyone if we are prepared.

We're 0-3 in the Big Ten now. It's a bit of an uphill battle and we need to do anything and everything to get of the hole.

We're a team and we go out there and we battle together, but when it comes down to it, the three games we lost, the defense let up at the end; we let them score. It felt great to go out there and really get them stopped. The offense gave us a great cushion and we locked them down.

We were disappointed to concede just before half-time, and we were expecting a battle in the second half.

We have protected the state of Kansas from her and her ideas as best we can. Now, there will be that battle of who's really done what and who gets credit for it.

We have players we are trying to get rest over the next 11 games. But you get into the heat of the battle sometimes and you need a billy club to get them out of the game sometimes because they are so competitive. We might have a few tangles coming down the stretch.

We've still got a grind and battle ahead of us. I think we're going up against a great team and we're going to have our hands full. I think the rivalry is there regardless of which team is in front.

The reality is they're not paying out enough anyway. There are all these companies that are sitting on top of cash hoards. The next big battle for corporate governance is for companies to start paying dividends again.

The real battle is not the federal level. It's going to be at the state level.

The real battle is being played out on the profitability front, the efficiency front, and the intellectual property front. Increasingly it's not going to be sufficient to simply put out whiz bang devices. You need to have a broader solution-oriented approach to serving the market, whether it's organic or partnership driven.

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.

We have just got our noses in front, although it was unfortunate losing Mike so close to the end. The morning session is crucial in the context of our first innings and maybe in the context of the game: if we bat well through to lunch we will be looking at a good score, if we lose a couple of wickets we will have to battle as long as we can.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

There are things we're still trying to accomplish. The .500 mark is one of them, and to continue to battle in the wild-card race is one of them. You can't fall too far behind in either one of those at this time of year.

There are these inexpert American seamen, never in a naval battle before, on their ships waiting for their first fight. It's morning. They look across Cumberland Head and they can see the tops of the British masts above the trees. They are thinking -- Oh my God, what are we facing,

On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

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

Battles decide everything.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

When you're a president, or prime minister of Canada.... your life is a constant battle between trying to pursue the agenda you (promised) to implement and trying to deal with all the incoming fire, the events of the day that you can't control,

When you're an athlete and can expose to people that you battle a lot of the same things that they go through, it helps them believe in themselves. You're talking about someone who is established as a very good player in this league who is able to relate that. Young people can see that he was brave enough to not only overcome it, but talk about it and show that he came out OK, that there's nothing to be ashamed of.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

We won the battle when they wanted to eliminate the program. Now the struggle is to make things work with much less money.

We won the battle of the crowds. There's a lot of enthusiasm in the community. This particular school has not won a state title. So it's a pretty starved community.

We won that battle and I've never looked back,

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,

These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

The prime minister was very closed last week, but was more open to the idea of amending the law today. Almost everyone agrees that we must do something, not because of the mobilization of the unions, but because the battle of explaining the law has been lost with the young.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

When you blow a nine-point lead like that you definitely lose your momentum. We continued to battle until the end, but we fell short.

There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

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

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

We're not convinced that the major manufacturers will succeed in getting the $1 billion ...but this battle could lead to another settlement (and) an ironclad partnership between the states and tobacco manufacturers.

Like he always is: Tough to hit. Myself, I was horrible today at the plate so I have to give him credit. I think with him you have to battle all day. He's the kind of guy that's going to work quick and try to get you out quick.

Luckily, Larry chose the school. Kenny Battle had seen him in a summer league and he sent him here. We were fortunate.

Life has been compared with a battle and rightly so, as each day comes up with a new set of challenges which we must meet. One can just not shy away from the problems if he has to survive. He has to meet to challenges with courage.

Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out. It's a book about big ideas, you can love them or you can hate them. But we're all talking about them, and that's really the point.

Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out.

Last year was a battle and we expect a battle this year. We're going to have to play well to win, that's for sure.

Sen. Dole can avoid this fight if he simply stands up and says, 'Listen, I ran as a pro-life candidate. I'm committed to Ronald Reagan's plank in that platform. I do not want a battle on the convention floor. If there is a battle, I will stand with those who stand with the human life amendment and if necessary, I will speak on its behalf,

Senate leaders warned President George W. Bush on Wednesday that his next nominee to the Supreme Court will likely face a far more contentious confirmation battle than John Roberts, who is poised to become U.S. chief justice.

She was incredible -- nothing stopped her at all. Whenever I felt ill, I always used to remember that in the same circumstances she would battle on, no matter how she felt. She never gave up.

She's having a pretty tough battle at the minute. She had a couple of weeks of very intensive treatment two weeks ago for another situation, so she's had a very tough time. But she's battling hard.

She's eating on her own now. They said she might not walk again but she's actually standing up and stuff. She's a warrior, and she's fighting her battle and I'm here fighting mine.

She's considered one of the best in the country. We faced her before though and we're familiar with her. It's going to be a battle but we feel good about our offense.

Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow: for the world is ill-natured.

Simply being on the losing end of a 5-2 battle isn't leadership. Leadership at that level really has to be about building a coalition.

Since alliance management is one of the most important BD&L functions, these teams can serve on the front line in the battle against generics. Managing successful alliances with generics firms help organizations that depend on development and deals to keep pipelines stocked and revenue flowing.

She got a good start and really raced when she got into the last 600 meters winning a good battle with a couple of other girls.

She had eight shots. She's posting up and not getting a touch because we're not doing the things we've done in the past and I credit Connecticut with that. It was a battle of wills.

Shane never takes a night off. He's the type of player that will go to battle every time he's on the ice. He comes to every game ready to play, and has been an integral part of our team's success this season.

Since most women are kind of different from the top-model image, there is a constant losing battle of self-image, ... It's damaging when every woman that's portrayed in the media or who are on the covers of magazines are part of a stereotypical form of beauty, whereas the average woman is not.

She's a hard worker. It's definitely hard to battle her in practice. She brings a lot to the team. When she shows what she can do, she'll be a good player.

Mike is doing a good job for us, but Cory has a strong arm, and I think they'll battle for the position next year.

Mike has played great. One thing we noticed in practice is his competitiveness. He's not afraid to go in and battle for rebounds. He's picked things up quickly.

Mt. Hope and North Kingstown are both physical teams. We'll have a battle if we get there. They did the right thing with the seeds. They did it based on record not division winners. St. Ray's is on a collision course with North Smithfield in the semis. It should be interesting.

Moving from the theological to the practical implications of Sony's snafu, the company couldn't have picked a worse time to offend its customers. Sony has already conceded a six-month head start to competitor Microsoft in the upcoming market-share battle for the next generation of game consoles. Microsoft's Xbox 360 is expected to debut this fall; Sony's PlayStation 3 will not arrive until the spring of 2006.