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Great battles are won with artillery. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles. -- Plutarch
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria -- Philo
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
You are a fool to speak of last great battles ... for the last great battle is always the next one. -- Roger Zelazny
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. -- William Ralph Inge
Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life. -- John Lubbock
Rocky is a warrior, we've had a lot of great battles starting from when I was 16. He's a true team player, great fighter, and I have a ton of respect for him. -- Mike Brown
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries. -- Peter Medawar
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony. -- Samuel Logan Brengle
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed? -- Eric Greitens
No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light. -- Johan Oscar Smith
We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had. -- Tony Curtis
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What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire. -- Peter Facinelli
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle they are in, but hear plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey. -- George Eliot
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle. -- C. S. Lewis
I think all great wrestlers appreciate a good BATTLE -- Kyle Dake
Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society. -- Nancy Friday
A book may be as great a thing as a battle. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle. -- James A. Michener
No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all. -- Vince Lombardi
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence. -- John F. Kennedy
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. -- John S. Mosby
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money. -- Ronald Reagan
If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence. -- Shannon L. Alder
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. -- Orison Swett Marden
The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. -- Savielly Tartakower
You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one. -- Roger Zelazny
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family, -- John Eldredge
Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition. -- Malcolm X
Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle. -- Troy Polamalu
... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames -- David Sheff
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it. -- Marc Maron
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail. -- Owen Arthur
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. -- Neil Gaiman
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. -- Orison Swett Marden
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
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. -- Frederick Douglass
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days. -- Shelby Foote

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