#battle

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #called #enemy #finding #general

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character. ↗

— Ludacris

#am #battle #being #camera #character

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#aid #battle #centuries #conquer #expecting

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#clever #existence #footwork #punch #tact

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... ↗

— William Joyce

#imagination #journeys #joy #lands #nicholas-st-north

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

#does #enemy #expect #knowing #timing

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#count #gold #gold medals #inevitable #inside

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. ↗

— Edmund Pendleton

#battle #hopes #our #peace #pervaded