“The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.” CharacterFightingBattleShotsThreatRingsBitterFighterRemarksCaustic Author:Jack Johnson
“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in” WorldDoeSoulFacesNightCitiesWiseSeaStreetsBattleShapesQuietDrawsShotsHorseTradeDearBonesForestsGatesCampsPaleBloodyHuntersInvitedNapsCartsDear FriendHoundsWarpWeavers Book:Suttree Source: Suttree
“It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.” CountryValuesWinningLibertyBattleShotsTerroristCrucialCivil LibertiesFiringAmerican Values Author:Russ Feingold
“.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .” FirstsTurnsBattleIntellectualShotsFavorsLiberalismTidesConservatismPublicationHayekRoad To SerfdomVon Hayek Author:E. J. Dionne
“Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.” ThinkingRunningLastsLawMotherHeardCollegeBattleShotsSoldierHearingRememberedBelovedAmerican HistoryUnclesBullsArdentClerksKentuckyConfederateAbolitionistLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.” PeopleWritingHeartLongTwoWarFightingGamesDestinyWallBattleShotsVoteFinalsBritishDecadesCivil WarHistorianCrownsUnnecessaryHollowJohnsonPoorestCameronReferendumsEton Author:Brian Reade
“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsTwoDoneTodayTurnsChanceKnownStepsForeverHeardReturnBattleThousandShotsDignitySoldierCommandFirst StepsThousand YearsStatuesTurning Points Author:Leon Uris
“Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.” PeopleWayWellsFightingWinningHeroBattleGloryShotsMatesHeroismTailsEmergenciesHounds Book:Time Enough for Love Source: Time Enough for Love
“The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.” LooksShowsFacesCertainCausesLosesBrainBattleConflictShotsPrimariesLaughedFistsEmergingCasualtiesComical Author:Julia Quinn
“The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail.” IfsChildrenWarSoulCareNationsPrayerPowerfulEnemyOur LivesPrayingBattleHusbandWeaponsShotsSittingOur ChildrenNeighborKneesOur FamilyZoneAngleBehalfOur PrayersThose We LoveSidelinesPowerful WeaponsLove And CareWar Zones Author:Stormie Omartian
“I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.” WayGivingWellsChristianFacesTurnsAnswersBattleThousandGiving UpShotsLonelyMovedFinalsSavedMysteriousOddsBulletsNot Giving UpTeammateComprehensionFormidableDesolateMysterious WaysAk 47Mikey Author:Marcus Luttrell
“Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend." He beamed and wiggled his fingers; blue sparks shot from them. He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.” BattleShotsBlueFingersAccessSparksBowsArmorMy Boyfriend Book:City of Lost Souls Source: City of Lost Souls
“I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle, The crack of the whip like shots in battle, The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads; The green beneath and the blue above, And dash, and danger, and life and love.” WantWarFreedomAirDangerBattleShotsAnd LoveBlueGreenSpreadCracksSighLife And LoveHornsWhipsCattleFresh AirFree LifeMedley Author:Frank Desprez