#battle

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#battle #lost #which #will #won

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer. ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#battle #been #best #best friend #both

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bed #field #life #like #marriage

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. ↗

— August Strindberg

#constantly #cruel #find #hard #i

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

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#battle #bet #nor #race #strong

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.” (Hadrian) ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#anger

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#enemy #possum #pretending-death #shot-twice #twice

War," Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the face of the planet. ↗

— Darren Shan

#death #demons #planet #war #death