Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Traviss

The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

We are here because of our constant battles with Victor Valley.

We did battle back. We just didn't get in a groove at all.

Jane Austen

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Mike Wallace

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Kevin Love

The more downtime we have, the more time you have to play games like 'Ghost Recon Future Soldiers,' so for me it's a fun way to get integrated into video games and for me to have fun with my buddies and team up and go into battle with 'em, kind of like out there on court.

Edward R. Murrow

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

We have had some tough battles with Traverse City this season. Competing in a playoff environment will continue to challenge our guys and prove to be great experience in the development of our players.

Brit Hume

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Ned Yost

There are things we're still trying to accomplish. The .500 mark is one of them, and to continue to battle in the wild-card race is one of them. You can't fall too far behind in either one of those at this time of year.

Kenneth Branagh

'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

Evangeline Lilly

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.

Merle Haggard

We've been in many battles together (always on the same side). Over the last few years, we'd become closer than we ever realized ... We were outlaws together.

We really had to battle for it, and the girls made tremendous improvement throughout the season. They have played so well in the second half of league, and that was our goal.

Chan Gailey

We really feel that our wide receiver position is set, and we feel good about that. Now they aren't battle tested in games but they've taken the first big step to getting there.

We're 0-3 in the Big Ten now. It's a bit of an uphill battle and we need to do anything and everything to get of the hole.

Luis Castillo

We're a team and we go out there and we battle together, but when it comes down to it, the three games we lost, the defense let up at the end; we let them score. It felt great to go out there and really get them stopped. The offense gave us a great cushion and we locked them down.

Chris Stewart

We didn't win the little battles on the ice. That's going to cost you a hockey game. There wasn't one blatant thing we were doing wrong other than the fact we have to win those one-on-one battles.

Jamie Carragher

We were disappointed to concede just before half-time, and we were expecting a battle in the second half.

We have protected the state of Kansas from her and her ideas as best we can. Now, there will be that battle of who's really done what and who gets credit for it.

Flip Saunders

We have players we are trying to get rest over the next 11 games. But you get into the heat of the battle sometimes and you need a billy club to get them out of the game sometimes because they are so competitive. We might have a few tangles coming down the stretch.

The reality is they're not paying out enough anyway. There are all these companies that are sitting on top of cash hoards. The next big battle for corporate governance is for companies to start paying dividends again.

The real battle is not the federal level. It's going to be at the state level.

Suzanne Collins

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

Demetri Martin

At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

Arjun Rampal

Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

Edgar Degas

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Elizabeth Strout

The appetites of the body were private battles.

Nancy Farmer

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

We're not going to get caught up in a battle with a particular vendor. We'll fight it at the customer level.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.