“Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.” WishPiecesBattleClothesNervousClothingsAnonymityBuyersConcealmentExhibitionism Book:Collected Impressions Source: Collected Impressions
“The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.” MenTwoDesireGirlFightingDifferencesPiecesLandBattleConflictIsraelPalestineTrianglesLove Triangle Author:Bruno Dumont
“I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.” IfsWantTryingCompanyRecordsPiecesPlansBattleBrandsManagersHuntingRecord Companies Author:Lars Ulrich
“He [Hern] calls his center the Boulder Abortion Clinic and he said specifically that he didn't want to hide that word. I'm deeply opposed to the politicization of language and try to avoid it when I possibly can - I don't like being manipulated by terms like pro-life or pro-choice. To me, abortionist should be as neutral as podiatrist. But again, maybe it was one battle too many, because it certainly distracted his attention from what I thought was a really sympathetic piece.” WantShouldTryingSaidChoicesLanguageTermAttentionPiecesBattleAbortionDistractedSympatheticPro LifeClinicBoulders Author:John H Richardson
“We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.” ThinkingKnowsFightingThreeRealizingBornCasesKnow HowTakenPiecesGenerationsFeminismBattleConflictSittingSuitsMemorableTorchesYounger GenerationDisgusted Author:Erma Bombeck
“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.” WorldHumansHuman BeingsAnimalPiecesBattleDevilAdultsCrueltyTrailsPreyCasualAnimal WorldPigletLionessCrocsDingoesTasmanian Devils Book:Steve & Me Source: Steve & Me
“The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.” ChildrenLongCountryHomeNamesGivenPiecesWindBattleHundredEuropeStonesDistanceEastOur CountryDesertLandscapeRemoveClothingsShiftingTreatiesCanterbury Author:Michael Ondaatje
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.” WorldLooksEnoughChristianTurnsLiteraturePeacePiecesPlanetsBattleTreatsDown AndBlowBiblicalDocumentsTornCivilisationUpside DownContainingDynamiteWorld Upside Down Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller.” WayGivingWarEnoughOrderRoomsHealingFirePiecesBrokenNeededBattleBedSpeechFilledSillyKingdomsTragicCompetenceCommandersWartimeFrayBroken Pieces Book:Fire Source: Fire
“Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!” SaidGamesPiecesBattleChessBoardsChess GameChess Pieces Book:Can You Keep a Secret? Source: Can You Keep a Secret?
“In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.” ShouldFirstsWellsArtEndsPlayLastsEvilForceActingQualityPrinciplesPiecesWrittenBattleOppositesStructureRageDrivingPrimariesImpulseGood And EvilPlotSectionsDriving ForceWell Written Author:Michael Chekhov