Battle Tested Quotes

#1. What 'listo' means in Spanish is this: it means prepared, it means battle-tested, it means rock solid, up for anything, never backing down. And, friends, Hillary Clinton, she is listo!

Tim Kaine

#2. The best thing about this journey is I know I have it in me to keep going. Battle-tested, you know? Now, my heart laughs at the word 'quit'.

Ace Antonio Hall

#3. Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

David Quammen

#4. The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

Paul Gauguin

#5. If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Russell Edson

#6. My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

Adam Hamilton

#7. Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

Jud Tylor

#8. In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

Ann Voskamp

#9. I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Tab Hunter

#10. Ultimately, wars escalate by eating their own shit, shitting bigger and eating bigger.

David Mitchell

#11. The regrets are like yesterday: they announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)

Charles De Leusse

#12. The Longer You Love, The Longer You Live, The Stronger You Feel, The More You Can Give.

Peter Frampton

#13. The seventh John Smith had even conspired to have a conspiracy against himself in Argentina, with resulting civil war, so that the weapons could be tested under actual battle conditions--for the region had been overpopulated anyway.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#14. Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Gerry Adams

#15. I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

Peter Hain

#16. Sophie seemed to understand sisterhood. Sometimes sisters need to shut their mouths and drop it. This was definitely one of those times.

Joanna Wylde

#17. Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity.

Castiel

#18. potestas is specific, auctoritas is extendable and can grow.

Michael Oakeshott

#19. Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

George Herbert

#20. But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

Elton John

#21. Youth holds no society with grief.

Euripides