#battle

And you, Percy, are my favorite son. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #poseidon #sibling-rivalry #battle

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#monsters #nietzsche #battle

To be honest, it was pretty hard to leave. I desperately wanted to turn around, and tell him everything would be okay. That I adore him and I trust him and that I'll stand by him while he goes through this tough time. But I'm just too tired. I'm thirty years old. I'm tired of relationships that are always painful. I'm tired of hurting. I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore. ↗

— Kim Gruenenfelder

#battle

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#adversary #battle #strategy #war #strategy

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#breaking #conquer #consists #enemy #excellence

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#both #chaos #constant #controls #his

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#knot #method #political #teeth #tongue

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airways #always #battle #british #competitive

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. ↗

— Louise Brown

#battle #believe #classes #clever #daughters