Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Ben Harper

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

Mike Boles

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Brad Berenson

If Bush is willing to go to the mat for somebody, the odds are good that, at the end of the day, no matter how bloody the battle has been, he can get that person confirmed.

Ed Sprague

He's really pitched very well. His first outing was dominating. He didn't get a decision, but he pitched about as well as you can pitch. The second outing, he didn't have his best stuff, but he was able to battle through it, and that's a maturity level we didn't see from him early in the season last year.

Bible Bible

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Horace

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

John Armstrong

Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.

Jodi Picoult

Does fate ever play by the rules?

Jodi Picoult

Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

John Greenleaf Whittier

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

John Green

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

P. G. Wodehouse

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

P. G. Wodehouse

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Amy Tan

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Ricky Martin

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Steven Berkoff

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Michael Haneke

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Janet Fitch

If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

Jane McGonigal

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.