There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician. "- G. A. Custer
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print in the long term is in paperback. The hardback has a certain life, and then it stops having that. It stops selling, and if you want the book to just stay around there has to be a paperback edition. So if there were not a paperback edition the book would eventually disappear from the shelves, and we would have lost the battle.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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.
I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues.
If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.
Only great and general battles can produce great results
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.