#battle

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bed #field #life #like #marriage

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #battle #environmental #environmental movement #every

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#always #battle #christianity #fight #losing

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#battlefield #business #come #die #health

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#battlefields #crowded #lonely #places #such

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#before #every #fight #fighting #fits

There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked. Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win. ↗

— John Flanagan

#danger #halt #horace #ranger-s-apprentice #risks

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#battle #death #dumbledore #pride #death

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 that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hogwarts #death

Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#conquer #game #hate #player #quotes