B Quotes
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“Battle... brings out all that is best.”
“Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.”
“Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.”
Source: Your Movie Sucks
“Battles are followed by years of famine.”
“Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"”
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
“Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes”
“Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
“Battles are not only won outwardly, they are first won within.”
“Battles are not won by strength alone!”
“Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.”
“Battles are won and lost before they are fought.”
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
“Battles are won by those who never give up the fight.”
“Battles are Won in the Prayer Room”
“Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.”
“Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.”
“Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.”
Source: A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Battles can be lost but Wars are forever in History Books”
“Battles decide everything.”
“Battles for truth are fought all alone but at the end its a victory for many.”
“Battles I lose none I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one”
“Battles like that ... They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they don’t. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sacrifice, every small act of defiance adds up..”
Source: Aphrodite
“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system”
“Battles of the hardest kind
Are never fought by hand.
They rage and fume inside the mind,
And slay the inner man.
Weapons that destroy a foe
Elicit fear and pain.
More violent is internal war
That ravages the brain.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.”
“Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.”
“Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”
Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.”
“Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.”
“Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.”
Source: The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
“Battling for our Wounded Warriors to have a better tomorrow for what they battled for US yesterday.”
“Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.”
Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
“Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation.”
“Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it.
Invite God into all twenty-four hours of your day.
This is the path of a #StaticJedi.”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tomorrow.”
“Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?”
“Batu di depan rumah
bertuliskan namamu.
Matahari mewarnai rambutnya,
hujan membasuh jiwanya.
Terkadang angin menggoncang
kepalanya yang batu
dan daun-daun mencoba
menggantinya dengan yang baru.
Ia kokoh di luar
hening di dalam.
Dalam namamu hidup batu
sebentuk arca yang membiru.”
Source: Anak yang Bercakap-cakap dengan Tuhan
“Batya was the first link in the iron chain of the oprichniks. After him other links were attached, welded, fused into the Great Ring of the oprichnina, its sharp barbs pointed outward. With this ring His Majesty drew a sick, rotting, collapsing country together, he lassoed it like a wounded bear, dripping ichor blood. And the bear grew strong of bone and muscle, its wounds healed, it put on fat, its claws grew out. And we let its blood, blood that was rotten, poisoned by enemies. Now the roar of the Russian bear is heard by the entire world.”
Source: Day of the Oprichnik
“Batı ve komünist dünyaları nasıl, alabildiğine silahlanıp birbirine diş biledikleri halde bir arada savaşsız yaşıyor ve iktisadi ilişkilerde bulunuyorsa, biz de, sınırları içinde Türk bulunan devletlerle dost kalmak şartıyla O Türkleri düşünür, kültürce ilerlemeleri için çalışır, her türlü yardımı yapabiliriz.”
Source: Türk Ülküsü
“Batıya gitmek ve hep batıya giderek doğuya ulaşmak, terk etmeyi çok sevmek.”
“Bau keringat ketiga orang di paviliun itu terasa pengap dan tengik. Esa menggelengkan kepala. Percuma. Kalau pun sekarang AC dinyalakan, yang ada hanyalah mengkonservasi udara bau. Persis seperti menghirup udara dari ikan kalengan yang sudah kadaluwarsa”
Source: Denting Lara
“Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.”
“Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.”
Source: Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry
“Baudrillard argues that there used to be a time when the role of objects was primarily to signify rather than to function. Thus, the symbolic structure of the traditional domestic ambience reflected the rituals and traditions of the socio-political order, arranged according to prescriptive and unchanging rules based on, and extracted from, ‘tradition and authority, and whose heart is the complex affective relationship that binds all the family members together […] Hence, the fixed and immovable meanings with which these objects were endowed: if mirrors and family portraits symbolized a particular sense of introspection and enclosure, the clock crowning the marble mantelpiece symbolized both the hierarchical structure of the family and the permanence of time. Linked to one meaning and one meaning only, every object of the traditional domestic interior can thus be understood as theatrical and ceremonial, thus occupying a specific place within the domestic interior exactly as family members occupy a specific position in their corresponding family tree.”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
“Baudrillard’s positioning of the first stage of simulation during the Renaissance: by reproducing appearances accurately, not only does the perspective window initiate the indefinite manipulation of the environment, but also the predominance of vision in the West. Now understood as a geometrical calculus of distances and proportions, space is born, a theatrical ambience where life unfolds according, and thanks to, the distance separating the viewer from the stage. ... On the other hand, no understanding of reality is possible in the absence of a gap distancing the subject from a world within which s/he used to feel completely merged and subjugated (Descartes, [1637] 2006); just as no understanding of the self is to the same extent possible in the absence of a gap distancing the subject from its own image in the looking glass (Lacan, [1936] 2006). An effect of representation, the perception of reality and individuality both owe to the perspective window their initiation and realization.”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
“Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.”
Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede
“Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.”
“Baumeister's point is that we have a deep need to understand violence and cruelty through what he calls "the myth of pure evil." Of this myth's many parts, the most important are that evildoers are pure in their evil motives (they have no motives for their actions beyond sadism and greed); victims are pure in their victimhood (they did nothing to bring about their victimization); and evil comes from outside and is associated with a group or force that attacks our group. Furthermore, anyone who questions the application of the myth, who dares muddy the waters of moral certainty, is in league with evil.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom