#battle

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#contributes #demands #general #greater #less

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#bottom #choose #face #get #gets

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#arms #battle #blood #came #coming

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#believe #charter #charter schools #civil #civil rights

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#battle #community #goes #legal #segregation

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#emcee #energy #giving #i #know

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ↗

— Democritus

#battle #children #life #only #raising

No study is possible on the battlefield. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#possible #study

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#battle #could #david #die #greatest