Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Ferdinand Foch

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Cate Blanchett

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

Franz Werfel

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Honestly, I could put two teams out there and feel good about it. Our back-ups are going to be strong players - we have a good back-up team. It's been competitive in practice. The two battle pretty well, so I'm excited about that.

Georges Duhamel

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

George S. Patton

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

George S. Patton

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Luc Robitaille

Good tip, wrong end, wrong time. As soon as it hit my stick, you just get that feeling where it's not good. Just more frustration. You battle hard to tie it up. Obviously a big game for us. To lose it that way, that's the game, I guess.

Elvis Costello

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Hassan Nasrallah

But with regards to Hezbollah, we are in a state of confrontation with Israeli occupiers and the battle is not over yet. It is still going on.

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.

Phillip Daniels

He's one of the nicest coaches I've played for. He's a man that will go to battle and protect your back. He's one of those guys who always wants to know what the players think and wants to make sure we're OK. ... You don't hardly ever get a coach who wants to know how the players feel. Half of them don't care. They just want to win.

I don't think losing one battle means you've lost the war.

Eric Davis

I don't know if I've ever coached a better competitor than Mike Gray. He battles out there and will do whatever it takes.

I don't know if it's a wake up call that we need or if it's just kinda having a confidence every time we go out on the field and knowing that even if the other team scores a goal, it's not the end of the world and that we can battle back from that.

I didn't think anything was going to top the battle we had with Dolgeville on Monday but this match did.

I didn't know if I was just going to be a rental player. This makes me feel a lot better about being here and wanting to battle for the rest of the year with these guys.

Jack Adams

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

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.

Henrik Ibsen

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

One of the benefits of that car is that it's a much cheaper car to build for the car owner and it's built with much better chance of each car on the track being competitive. (Dodge) had an uphill battle to try to make (the Intrepid) perform and make it match its cousin on the street.

Jake Peavy

I think they're very important. Obviously you don't want to tax your body. You get in the heat of battle and you're going to want to stay in there when you probably shouldn't.

It is a proxy battle for a more flexible employment model versus what the French like to call a social model for Europe.

It is a real defining line. It really defines what this battle is about.

Mark Williams

It is always hard this time of the year to keep focused, but it goes both ways. I'm sure Etiwanda is in a battle in its league, and they didn't have any problems tonight.

Tim Finchem

It is always exciting to watch Tiger battle to be the best. We congratulate him on another great season and on the accomplishment of continuing to be the No.1 player in the world.

I think there was an overall lack of intensity on our part. I don't think there was a whole lot of intensity from either side, really. We need to play our own game. It seemed like it was going to be a defensive battle and we were just willing to commit to that instead of going after them like we usually do.

I think there's still a positive vibe. I hope that people realize it's an uphill battle for an expansion team, and that it's going to take a little time.

I think Sony is going to take number one - They have real strong brands. The battle is really for number two. I think there will be a big battle for the number two spot.

Jenny has been a real inspiration in her battle to come back and Cyndi has done an outstanding job. I think we're playing pretty well at this point.

Joe Girardi

Jim is a guy who played a long time in the big leagues. Every day he had to battle to fight for every hit he got. I like that, guys who have battled through adversity.

Koizumi has made the party his after four years of often fierce and difficult battles with his opponents within.