Best battle & seems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.”

Ifs Trying Looks Littles Bigs Seems Winning Watches Fronts Battle Tasks Accomplish Mma Footsteps

Author:Forrest Griffin

“Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.”

Men Matter Seems Able Fighting Causes Sound Danger Arms Bears Battle No Matter What Signals Bosoms Trumpets Comrade

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.”

Way Enough Seems Running Dies Forget Battle Mouths Advantage Fishes Extremes Get Away Leap Panic Hook Belly Anglers

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.”

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.”

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.”

Needs Wells Seems Certain Fighting Battle Accounts Covered Need You Beyonce I Am Pretty

Author:Shirley Manson

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”

War Seems Evolution Battle Superstitions Rationality Never Ending

Book:Why Evolution Is True

Source: Why Evolution Is True

“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.”

People Way Seems Used Black Forget Leader Creativity Battle Black People Denied Literacy Illiteracy Conveying

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Seems Half Situation Destiny Plans Military Taught Battle Training Bad Situations Military Experience

Author:Amanda Ripley

“In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.”

Seems Battle Circles Disorder Troops Defeated Chaotic Tumult

Author:Sun Tzu

“The word of the Lord is this: "Just bless those that persecute you and ask for Justice, for the battle does not belong to you but God. God is able to restore your credibility with man even when things seem like that could be impossible. Speak to the storm and release peace."”

Men Doe Seems Able Asks Speak Justice Lord Impossible Battle Storm Release Bless Credibility God Is Able

Author:Julia Loren

“Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.”

“Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.”

People Seems Half Figures Terrible Battle

Author:Queen Latifah

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

“It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.”

People Feels Seems Differences Battle Disease Brave Cancer Inequality Old People Fart Feeling Lonely Dementia Alzheimer Alzheimer's Old Farts

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.”

Seems Fighting Loses Movement Victory Battle Environmental Temporary

Author:David Suzuki

“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.”

“The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)”

Knows Should Seems Suffering Cases Battle Innocent Spares Fury

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.”

Men Way Kind Reality Seems Force Effort Enemy Violence Battle Illusion Ears Phrases Brutal Continuing Echoes Bondage Brutes Revolt Approving

Author:Milan Kundera

“I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.”

Whole Seems Talent Battle

Book:Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Source: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.”

Men Wells Seems Today Fire Planets Serious Battle Pages Men And Women Rain Intelligent Dialogue Noise Prose Endeavor Intelligent Man

Author:John Cheever

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