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Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. -- Jim Ramstad
The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later. -- Adam Mansbach
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. -- James A. Baldwin
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat. -- Nancy Gibbs
The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero. -- Charles Studd
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. -- Sun Tzu
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself. -- Eric San
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. -- John Boyd Orr
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page. -- George R. R. Martin
Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. -- Mark Hoppus
In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage. -- Ian Doescher
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. -- Juan Williams
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war. -- Suzanne Collins
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table. -- Ehud Barak
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. -- Adrienne Rich
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. -- Ken Follett
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won. -- Marcus Buckingham
This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy. -- Marsha Blackburn
Lose this battle so we can win the war. -- Olivia
Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war. -- Katlyn Charlesworth
No war or battle sound Was heard the world around. -- John Milton
To stop a battle, a politician would propose a war. -- Jarod Kintz
A good front is half the battle in love or war. -- Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war -- John Green
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for. -- Arthur M. Jolly
Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war -- Charles de Gaulle
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. -- Charles de Gaulle
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. -- Donald Trump
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes. -- B. W. Powe
This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems. -- Stephen Elop
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. -- Thomas Carlyle
The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war. -- Jared Brock
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy. -- Sun Tzu
To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself. -- Sten Nadolny
Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own. -- P. C. Cast
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. -- John S. Mosby
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. -- Chris Hedges
Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle. -- Stormie Omartian
Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you. -- Jack Gantos
Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. -- Anonymous
I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me. -- Immaculee Ilibagiza
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. -- Louis Althusser
I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war. -- Jason Jones
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. -- Walter Scott
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. -- Ernest Hemingway
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war, -- Benjamin Netanyahu
We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war. -- Ami Ayalon
The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war! -- Adrian Rogers
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. -- George R. R. Martin
Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war -- Carl von Clausewitz
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. -- Jerry A. Coyne
And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him. -- Sun Tzu
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. -- Bryant McGill
Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism. -- Paul Ryan
The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle. -- Frederick Lenz
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them. -- Homer
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. -- Ludwig von Mises
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war. -- George S. Patton
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese! -- Duke of Wellington
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. -- Mark Lawrence
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. -- Jan Karon
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. -- Thomas Hood
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. -- Norman Mailer
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. -- Kevin Hearne
In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed. -- Charles B. Rangel
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war. -- George S. Patton
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators. -- Murray Kempton
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. -- Robert Greene
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens. -- Reza Aslan
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds. -- Rachel Grady
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. -- Thomas Hobbes
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. -- James A. Baldwin
Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes. -- Kami Garcia
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. -- Peggy Noonan
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor. -- Leon Uris
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot. -- Hideo Kojima
Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance. -- Dan B. Allender
Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war. -- Victor L. Brown
War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days. -- Donna Tartt
To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I. -- Hannah Senesh

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