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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Everything was always a pretty up and down for me. It's always been an uphill battle as far as getting respect goes.
The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
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.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.
Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.
It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
While you may watch what you eat, food is only half the battle. Liquid calories count just as much - maybe even more!
A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.
To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.
Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Actually I don't mind the gym when I get there, but I hate the psychological battle I have to go through to get there.
Any type of Royal Rumble or battle royal I always look forward to because I usually get to do some pretty cool things.
No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.
Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.
Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.
Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.
If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.
The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth
Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.