Battle Quotes - Page 15
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
"Speaking Of Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1980.
John Robbins (2010). “The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less”, p.220, Ballantine Books
It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.37, Paradise Publishing
Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.
Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press
James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Attributed in N.Y. Times, 26 Dec. 1886. The earliest trace of this quotation was in Charles de Montalembert, De l'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre (1856). Montalembert quoted Wellington, supposedly visiting his old school, in French: "C'est ici qu'a ete gagnee la bataille de Waterloo." In fact,Wellington was a notably unenthusiastic alumnus of Eton, and Elizabeth Longford, in Wellington: The Years of the Sword (1969), concludes that "probably he never said or thought anything of the kind." See O
David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.196, Cambridge University Press
Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.54, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions