#battle

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.


James Joyce


#behind #forehead #fought #inspired #material

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-


Cassandra Clare


#city-of-glass #isabelle-lightwood #life #mortal-instruments #sacrifice

He is not a tame lion," said Tirian. "How should we know what he would do? We, who are murderers. Jewel, I will go back. I will give up my sword and put myself in the hands of these Calormenes and ask that they bring me before Aslan. Let him do justice on me." "You will go to your death, then," said Jewel. "Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?" said the King. "That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun." "I know," said Jewel. "Or as if you drank water and it were dry water. You are in the right, Sire. This is the end of all things. Let us go and give ourselves up." "There is no need for both of us to go." "If ever we loved one another, let me go with you now," said the Unicorn. "If you are dead and if Aslan is not Aslan, what life is left for me?


C.S. Lewis


#death

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#credit #generally #generals #get #soldiers

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.


Louise Brown


#battle #believe #classes #clever #daughters

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.


Carrie Underwood


#battle #because #biggest #chocolate #fighting

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.


Dorothy Day


#battle #community #goes #legal #segregation

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.


Democritus


#battle #children #life #only #raising

No study is possible on the battlefield.


Ferdinand Foch


#possible #study

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.


Jack White


#battle #bent #bit #conquer #express