“The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.” Goes OnBattleUniversalConservationBuilding Walls Author:John Muir
“A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.” CasesGoes OnDependsBattleTenSevenTapeTelescopes Book:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.” IfsEnoughLostIssuesGoes OnBattleProveProjectsAimInfinityConceded Author:Nathaniel Branden
“The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.” HumansHas BeensWinningCausesForeverConditionsGoes OnBattleHuman ConditionSuperstitions Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.” ThinkingMindReasonGuyFightingGoes OnBattle Author:Barry Zito
“One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.” WayWritingHeartHardReasonDiesFightingLanguageEnemyStruggleGoes OnMy HeartBattleCompetitionAvailableSomedayPushingHopelessYieldRetiringMasteryFierceEarningLifelongHard WayBookshopsApprenticeshipBowelsEarning A LivingPushing On Author:Anthony Burgess
“There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.” MindSpiritualFormPoliticalEconomicGoes OnBattleIntellectualVariousFlyingCrucialBulletsSymbolicBattlefieldsLiteralWeaponry Author:Cornel West
“I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.” WantTryingProblemGrowingGroupsLandGoes OnBattleProtectFoundationHistoricalStriveFolksNeighborhoodHeritageInfluentialChairmanFranklin Author:Michael W. Smith
“Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.” LittlesStillsJobsMovingChanceTakenGoes OnBattleActiveIslandsDisgustingStinkCampingVolcanoesAnother ChanceVery MovingSulfurIwo Jima Author:P. J. O'Rourke