You can’t be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS. – Paul Wolfowitz
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I’m not giving up, and I’m not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either. – Rush Limbaugh
The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that’s not easy. There are times when you say, ‘Wow, what a fight, what a battle.’ – Rodrigo Santoro
We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home. – Ron Lewis
Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement. – Robert Kurson
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. – Thor Heyerdahl
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. – Sun Tzu
There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn’t always the best way in. – Tori Amos
A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ for instance, are studs. – Stephen Merchant
When do you know you’re insane? And when do you known you’re sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It’s a battle to function, but somehow I manage. – Siobhan Fahey
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord. – Thor Heyerdahl
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction. – Zadie Smith
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. – Sherwin B. Nuland
Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran. – Stephen Kinzer
I moved to New York – I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like ‘8 Mile.’ I used to rap battle. – Utkarsh Ambudkar
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. – Tony Blair
I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle. – Steve Jobs
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. – Ted Cruz
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. – Ulysses S. Grant
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. – Sun Tzu
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. – William Falconer
Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things. – Saku Koivu
No, I don’t know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they ‘should’ like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle. – Terry Teachout
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. – Tyne Daly
I speak from a nerd’s perspective because I’ve been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Star Blazers’ and ‘Battle of the Planets,’ and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese. – Yuri Lowenthal
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. – Thomas Paine
