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“The reality of the 'Maunder Minimum' and its implications of basic solar change may be but one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think that sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science.”
John A. Eddy (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Morality is not a thing you can simply doff to put on the helm of battle, then put back on when you’re done with the slaughter.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the xenophobic attacks in South Africa - "How I Predicted Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa - TB Joshua" Vanguard Nigeria (April 17 2015)
“I am honored to be at the forefront of our battle to ensure that all children have a happy and healthy opportunity at life.”
Sean Pittman (born 1968) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: www.WCTV.tv CBS Channel 6. Posted 1:08 PM EST 3 June, 2009.
“So by this time some of the Germans from on the hill was shooting at us. Well I was giving them the best I had, and by this time the Germans had got their machine guns turned around and fired on us. So they killed 6 and wounded 3 of us. So that just left 8, and then we got into it right by this time. So we had a hard battle for a little while —”
Alvin York (1887–1964) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of 8 October 1918
“So you can see here in this case of mine where God helped me out. I had been living for God and working in the church some time before I come to the army. So I am a witness to the fact that God did help me out of that hard battle; for the bushes were shot up all around me and I never got a scratch.”
Alvin York (1887–1964) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of 8 October 1918
“Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.”
René Char (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A statement written soon after the end of World War II, as quoted in René Char : This Smoke That Carried Us : Selected Poems (2004) edited by Susanne Dubroff
“Next year there will be a celebration dedicated to the victory in the Battle of Poltava, so it would be symbolic to play the match with Sweden there.”
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (born 1979) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2008)
“To win in a battle without compromises is always nicer.”
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (born 1979) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2008)
“The decision to kill a civilian in the street is not an easy one, and no one comes to it lightly. No one takes the step of placing a bomb in a public place without a battle of conscience.”
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Technically, the Hurricane might have been able to win the Battle of Britain on its own. But for keeping up the spirits of the people on the ground while running rings round anything the Third Reich could throw at it? That was the job of the Spitfire, a symbol of British brilliance, a symbol of hope.”
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In private one can well be a cat that walks by itself, and without roots in any specific soil: but in the great battle for the Kingdom of God it seems to me one ought to belong to some brotherhood.”
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broken Lights Letters 1951-59.
“A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.”
Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The surprising thing is that the so called defenders of democracy like US and Europe seem to just be oblivious of the fact that a huge chunk of the democratic model has come undone in India. While the opposition is fighting that battle, US and Europe are not doing enough to restore the democracy in India. The inaction may be because of the trade and money they are getting.”
Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 06, 2023 . Rahul Gandhi’s comments in London [https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/rahul-gandhis-comments-in-london-are-not-criticisms-but-cynical-rants-of-a-bitter-frustrated-hopeless-man…
“I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself; nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers, you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Our trials are too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for a truly civilized people.”
Warren E. Burger (1907–1995) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Annual address to the America Bar Association winter convention, Los Vegas (February 12, 1984).
“They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.”
Paolo Bacigalupi (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.”
Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us turn passing events to our own advantage. Out of conditions as they exist let us carve out fortunes and realize our ambitions. In the beginning nature made man a contending animal. Are we not all Greeks or Trojans? We must therefore make up our minds for a life of continual battle, we must fight, I say, morning, noon and night, if need be against an entire world.”
Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.”
Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you had the height, you controlled the battle.”
Douglas Bader (1910–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mackenzie 2008 p. 39.
“Hendrix has read the interviews where Collins has flatly denied knowing about Battle Royale before she wrote The Hunger Games. But Hendrix says the plots are eerily similar: school kids chosen by lottery, given a variety of weapons and survival packs and taken to a remote, restricted area to take part in a televised death match.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hendrix says one of the most important things Battle Royale and The Hunger Games share is the idea of teenagers trapped in a ruined society, coerced by grownups into doing horrible things.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The battle... is for the minds of men; the outcome... does not depend on numbers of missiles, but on the question of which system can raise life higher, give more happiness... and raise the great undeveloped masses out of their misery. ...Now there are two parties: democracy and communism. Why not embark on a noble competition by showing which... can create a better, freer, happier life?”
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Canadian Press (17 February 2011).
“We emerged victorious in every battle with the enemy at all times and in all places, because we were full of confidence in victory, and maintained an indefatigable fighting and self-sacrificing spirit without losing our composure and hope, even in confrontation with an enemy force, which was dozens of times stronger in number.”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This senseless advance of expensively trained and equipped men to certain and complete slaughter—men who as usual not only had no idea of what they were dying for, but had been actively misled about it—made about as much military sense as the Siege of Sevastopol or the Battle of the Marne. Certainly it was spectacular, but intellectually it was not even very interesting.”
James Blish (1921–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream.... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on the steps of the State Capitol Building, Montgomery, Alabama (25 March 1965), as transcribed from a tape recording; reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), which states that this sp…
“The battle is in our hands. And we can answer with creative nonviolence the call to higher ground to which the new directions of our struggle summons us. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. But we must keep going.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Marianne Alexandre (ed.), !Viva Che!: Contributions in Tribute to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1968)
“Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt: Put your confidence in us. ... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC radio broadcast, February 9, 1941. In The Churchill War Papers : 1941 (1993), ed. Gilbert, W.W. Norton, pp. 199–200
“William now directed his archers to shoot high into the air, so that the arrows would fall behind the shield-wall, and one of these pierced Harold in the right-eye, inflicting a mortal wound. He fell at the foot of the royal standard, unconquerable except by death, which does not count in honour. The hard-fought battle was now decided.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1066 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
“Where do you think you are going? Can’t you see that the battle is won? Come on, stand firm!”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have gained the battle of Lutzen like the general-in-chief of the Army of Italy and of the Army of Egypt!”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To plan to reserve cavalry for the finish of the battle, is to have no conception of the power of combined infantry and cavalry charges, either for attack or for defense.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is said in the Book of Poetry, "In silence is the offering presented, and the spirit approached to; there is not the slightest contention." Therefore the superior man does not use rewards, and the people are stimulated to virtue. He does not show anger, and the people are awed more than by hatchets and battle-axes.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Six Crises (1962) by Richard Nixon, and Quotation number 18611 in The Columbia World of Quotations
Also quoted by: 艾森豪威尔 (zh)
“A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild.”
James A. Michener (1907–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a man sacrifices in struggling for his Volk, a woman sacrifices in struggling to preserve this Volk in individual cases. What a man gives in heroic courage on the battlefield, woman gives in eternally patient devotion, in eternally patient suffering and endurance. Every child to which she gives birth is a battle which she wages in her Volk's fateful question of to be or not to be.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech from the Sixth Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg (8 September 1934), quoted in Hitler: speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945 - Volume 2 - Page 533
“I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual—I would say divine—creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews (1971) by Richard Breiting, p. 68
“Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom — A field where a thousand corpses lie.”
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I jumped up on the benches, roared out, "Damn you, you rascals!", hissed and was in the greatest rage. [...] I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.”
James Boswell (1740–1795) first seen 1672 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On an occasion of mocking a pair of Highland officers, circa 1672, as attributed by Ruaridh Nicoll, "As a Scot, I hate this idea of a neutered nation", The Observer, 22 April 2007
“We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Progressive Party Convention, Chicago (17 June 1912)
“I am all right — I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him. You would find that if I was in battle now I would be leading my men just the same. Just the same way I am going to make this speech.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The battle is endless. It had no beginning, nor will it know an end. We who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source