#battle

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#back #battles #done #gives #going

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#battle #concept #decisive #engage #internationalism

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

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

— Wilson Mizner

#clever #existence #footwork #punch #tact

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

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#fought #history #importance #institutions #military

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#except #half #lost #melancholy #nothing

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#battles #hegel #history #life #reminiscence