"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

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"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Battle, Tongue, Yield

"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Battle, Death, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

Battle, Enemy

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

Tacitus, Roman Historian

Battle, Day, Fight, May

"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."

Sandra Cisneros, American Author

Battle, Humanity, Understanding, World

"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."

John Burroughs, American Author

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"Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go!Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Battle, Power, Truth, Inspirational

"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Battle, Truth, Power, Life, Today

Explore more quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."

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"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

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"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."

Psychology, Expectation, Rebellion, Independence, Pressure

"What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it."

Life, Night, Talk, Secrecy, Action

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."

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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."

Experience, People, Acting, Question

"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."

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"Every man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?"

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"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."

Fear,