Decisive Battle Quotes

#1. There is in guerilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle.

Mao Zedong

#2. It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Christian Lous Lange

#3. Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost.

Ernesto Sabato

#4. We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all ... This is the dream of every Arab.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#5. I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive ... (it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

Holland Smith

#6. Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.

Sharon Kay Penman

#7. She showed that alertness, that swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.

Carl Schmitt

#9. The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

Richard M. Nixon

#10. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle - they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. - ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

Ray Kurzweil

#11. Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us ...

A.W. Tozer

#12. You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#13. The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

Maxine Kumin

#14. Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

Louis Althusser

#15. As soon as we get the place secure, I'll get in touch," Miller said. "Okay, but don't take too long. If Thoth Station has a whorehouse left standing, I'm going to need help prying Amos out of it.

James S.A. Corey

#16. She'd snapped, he thought. She'd definitely snapped.

James Dashner

#17. At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.

Charles Simic

#18. The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

H.L. Mencken

#19. Our attention should be concentrated on God, instead of on what we wear.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Helene Deutsch

#21. A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

James F. Cooper

#22. Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

Murray Rothbard

#23. Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

Sun Tzu

#24. Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

Stephen Levine

#26. I am at peace. I am at peace. I am at peace.

Jettie Woodruff

#27. In this place the air he breathed was fresher, the sun was brighter, and life was filled with hope.

Matt Thomas

#28. Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

Heinz Guderian