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Battle Quotes
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
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"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
8
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
7
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
7
"It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle."
7
"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."
7
"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
7
"From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle."
7
"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."
6
"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."
6
"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
6
"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
6
"On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done."
6
"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
6
"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."
5
"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."
5
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
5
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
5
"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing."
5
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
5
"When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage."
5
"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D."
5
"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
5
"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
4
"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
4
"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
4
"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
3
"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
3
"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."
3
"The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle."
3
"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
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