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Battle Quotes - Page 32

What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.

Maria Shriver (2009). “The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

Every soul is a battlefield.

Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.78, Pear Press

I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.

CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.2, Cambridge University Press