I have no formal proof, but I dare not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen would treat me as collateral damage in the battle he is having with the party. – Marion Marechal-Le Pen
There’s a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. – Mario Batali
The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be. – Napoleon Hill
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. – Neil Gaiman
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. – Naomi Wolf
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, ‘If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!’ And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch. – Neil Peart
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. – Pope Francis
I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, ‘You do not have to battle your Crohn’s disease alone.’ – Mary Ann Mobley
Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. – Joseph Brodsky
I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues. – Julian Ovenden
Ultimately, you have to write what’s coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle. – Jonathan Tropper
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy – which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest – is too callous for most Americans. – John Yarmuth
I didn’t know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee. – Kool Moe Dee
I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera – and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character. – Ludacris
If you battle monsters, you don’t always become a monster. But you aren’t entirely human anymore, either. – Jonathan Maberry
Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held. – Martin McGuinness
From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that’s really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it’s actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics. – Jake Barton
America’s workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world’s highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. – Kit Bond
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Any voice where you’ve got to scream over a battle or whatever, that’s always difficult. It’s harder than it seems. – John DiMaggio
I’m sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don’t regret any of it. – Marc Maron
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. – Leonard Cohen
I’ve definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I’m working with because it’s so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That’s become really, really important to me, for sure. – Kate Mara
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win? – Jed S. Rakoff
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another. – Josh Hutcherson
