#battles

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#battles #certain #certainty #how #many

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! ↗

— Helen Keller

#battles #fought #strike #war #without

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles. ↗

— Bill Scott

#involved #legal #me #middle #now

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#back #battles #done #gives #going

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... ↗

— William Joyce

#imagination #journeys #joy #lands #nicholas-st-north

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#battles #hegel #history #life #reminiscence

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#i #i love #like #love #place

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#because #fight #god #i #own

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it. ↗

— Gary Numan

#agreeing #any #anyone #asking #assure