Battle Quotes - Page 45

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.

We can't be perfect all the time and that's okay. In the heat of the battle, in the heat of the moment, you might say things or do things that aren't right, but at the same time, Christ forgives us. Christ will always forgive you.

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the public. This battle led to the lunch counter sit-ins, which became embattled, contested places.

We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

Even those who lose the battle are not cowards - if they have fought.