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Fighting Battles Quotes (page 2)

A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy. Theodore White
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party. William Butler Yeats
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. William Morris
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. Al Goldstein
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me. Ernie Pyle
Ron Lewis quote: "We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we..."
We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home. Ron Lewis
Mario Vargas Llosa quote: "One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser."
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser. Mario Vargas Llosa
I study the chessboard and concede defeat."You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over. Haruki Murakami
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. Sun Tzu
Terry Prachett quote: "Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious..."
Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight! Terry Prachett
If his life depended on it, hehad to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last dropof blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. John Steinbeck
All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . . Ayn Rand
During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope. Lance Armstrong
William Shakespeare quote: "God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more..."
God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle! William Shakespeare

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