The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

When do you know you’re insane? And when do you known you’re sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It’s a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, “When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his...

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.

I’m itching for battle—with a mosquito bite. The only thing in life I’ll scratch at more is the need to be loved. I’m so bloody needy.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the Trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies...

The battle of the sexes and you’re winning hands down.

In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could...

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you’re bound to get a few wrinkles.

In such a beast as this…” (he means the army)”…it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy....

Rachel!” Gabe shouted, rushing forward. Before Gabe could reach her Haim, being closer to where she had fallen through, leapt into the gaping hole after her. The group now only heard Haim’s cries echoing in...

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one’s main weight.

Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall...

If we must die, then let us die fighting a battle worthy of remembrance in the tales of our descendants!

[Truman] didn’t want to fight the guy, whatever he was—alien, vampyr or douchebag.

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had...

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

[Babbington] “What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?”[Captain Aubrey] “Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned...

Legion, cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood. ‘Greeks!’ Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged....

He stopped the flyersAnd by his rare example made the cowardTurn terror into sport. As weeds beforeA vessel under sail, so men obeyedAnd fell below his stem. His sword, Death’s stamp,Where it did mark, it...

Uri was turned, looking at him, shouting something, but at that point, Gabe couldn’t hear him. A moment later, Gabe felt like the car was spinning uncontrollably. The nausea overcame him and he seriously thought...

The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle.

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even...

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been...

It was only that night, dreaming forbidden dreams of Laurence and the clear attraction he had already displayed towards her, that the dream was disturbed. She woke to pain, her eyes and mouth flashing open...

Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where...

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

But he didn’t need to seek visual confirmation of what he’d just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn’t blame her. He’d not have let her die, either. He’d have moved...

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In...

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

If God’s love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God’s plan kick...

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

If 12 of the finest soldiers were asked to follow bravely into battle, and near certain death, then I’d be very grateful to be the 13th best fighter.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

We’ve got facts,” they say. But facts aren’t everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.

Victory is a thing of the will.

My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

We have to go back and help Gabe.