#battle

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bed-of-roses #love #marriage #matrimony #war

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#fighting #gurney-halleck #practice #preparation #training

How I love thee... ↗

— Cecilia Dart-Thorntonilia Dart-Thornton

#love

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#love #suffering #truth #love

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

— Robert Jordan

#adversary #battle #strategy #war #strategy

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#credit #generally #generals #get #soldiers

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

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#battle #battling #cancer #i #intend

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#lost #thinks

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#battle #church #creek #disbanded #exception