Battle Quotes - Page 12

• Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

  Sidney Lanier

  Art, Memories, Looks

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• Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Struggle, Growth

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• If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Mean, Winning

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.

  Andy Andrews

  Long, Matter, Deny

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2016

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• Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Sorrow, Allies, Libertarian

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.207, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Want, Sovereign, Lord

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• Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living...that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Fighting, Discipline

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lost, Minutes

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• Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

  Tonto Dikeh

  Soldier, Fields, Darling

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• I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Waiting, Want, Return Of The King

  "Fictional character: Pippin". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Enlisting

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• Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Determination, Grit, Arena

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• Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Cutting, America

  "The True Cost of 9/11" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.slate.com. September 1, 2011.

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• Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Looks, Caught, Involved

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

  Billy Campbell

  Self, Trying, Actors

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.

  Rachel Maddow

  East London, Rose, Black

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• Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

  Rachel Maddow

  Song, Black, London

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• Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

  Tim Sandlin

  Luck, Way, Normal

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• This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, History, Curiosity

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), William Smith (1872). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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• 2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, India, Agendas

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• Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

  Robert Solow

  Games, Want, Lasts

  "Conversations With Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics". Book by Arjo Klamer, 1983.

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• I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Fighting, America, Judging

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Pain, Stronger

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• The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Latin, Struggle, Hands

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