Quotes About Battle

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

The problem with 'Today' was whether it was an entertainment show. Tom Brokaw and I had that battle for three weeks. He's a purist, and I was brought in for entertainment.

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.

Within a week, the entire nation was raving about alternating current as the future of electricity. The fair was a debilitating blow to Edison's direct current, and foreshadowed the coup de grace in the War

I am lord of Asia. Come to me, and you shall receive all that you can ask. But if you deny my right as your lord, stand and fight for your kingdom. I will seek you wherever you are.

Other times you had a rake of our lads killed, and a rake of the old grey-suited devils, and you wouldn't know who had won the fucking thing, sure how could you tell boys?

A lucky man is a man you want fighting near you and he gives the needful sense that the world is a thing of mysteries and wonders. That it's bigger than you, bigger than all the shit and blood you seen, That God might be in it somehow looking out for you.

Each time he returned from battle he was a little less himself—and a little bit more at the same time. The experience seemed to both harrow his soul and enrich his understanding of the evils the world held.

No hay sabiduría, ni inteligencia, Ni consejo, contra Jehová. El caballo se alista para el día de la batalla; Mas Jehová es el que da la victoria" (Proverbios 21:30-31 RV1960).

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

This famous life and death struggle of two races is commemorated by a multitude of cairns and pillars which strew the great battle plain in Sligo — a plain which bears the name (in Irish) of "the Plain of the Towers of the Fomorians." The De Danann were now the undisputed masters of the land. So goes the honored legend.

because of the quarrel of the women, the beautiful peace of the Island was broken by battle. Eber was beaten, and the high sovereignty settled upon Eremon. It was in his reign, continues the legend, that the Cruitnigh or Picts arrived from the Continent. They landed in the southwest, at the mouth of the River Slaney (Inver Slaigne).

Cathair Mor was succeeded by Conn who overthrew him in a great battle in Meath.

A warlike people must have war.

The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has been challenging through constant battle since the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance.

You're a warrior, Nate," Dub said softly. "You always will be. But now the battle is for peace of mind.

Love is a battle between the sexes in which the man always wins because that's more erotic for everyone!

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?

Time is your weapon, If you lose it, you will lose the battle.