#battle

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. ↗

— Juan Williams

#being #buried #collateral #conversation #correctness

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#battle #intelligence #language #means #our

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#battle #been #bureaucracy #commission #election

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. ↗

— John Yoo

#american soldiers #any #battlefield #distant #far

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

I had a very public battle with anorexia. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#battle #had #i #public #very

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#because #fight #fighters #fights #frankly

It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#battle #come #feel #having #i

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#loyalty #war #loyalty

Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #battle