#battles

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#dead #generals #grip #hold #like

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#battles #easy #gentleman #georgia #global

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#battles #daddy #everybody #fight #got

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#i #i love #like #love #place

It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies...Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#fighting-battles #art

Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ... I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ... I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way! ↗

— Ronald D. Moore

#brother-cavil #cylons #science-fiction #space-opera #supernova

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appreciation #battles #country #get #history

Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#choose-your-battles-wisely #choosing-peace #choosing-serenity #fighting-battles #inspirational-life

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#conflict #ideas #intelligence #progress #war

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#because #better #charge #did #director