#battle

We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#government #harmony #tea-ceremony #art

Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#brienne #childbed #knights #ladies #beauty

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#war #wisdom #military

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them. ↗

— Denis Leary

#biggest #camera #come #forget #i

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#battlefield #be brave #brave #champagne #cowards

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. ↗

— William Morris

#another #battle #comes #defeat #fight

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#because #fight #god #i #own

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#ford #give #john #john ford #try

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs. ↗

— Barack Obama

#battle #candidate #families #fathers #frustration