Top 31 Losing Battles Quotes
#1. Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.
Lisa Unger
#2. Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
Patricia Ireland
#3. All at once Mari understood why people fought losing battles - because if you want something badly enough, you can't do anything else but fight for it.
Kresley Cole
#4. Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He's been taken by the Starks and we've lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king.
The dwarf smiled crookedly. All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.
George R R Martin
#5. Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk.
And losing battles too.
George R R Martin
#6. Gretchen turned to Vlad. "Speaking of that, hiya, Drac-in-law.
Jeaniene Frost
#7. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.
K.J. Parker
#10. Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke ... tumors.
Bo Burnham
#11. It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.
Robin Olds
#12. Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion.
Paula Heller Garland
#13. I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
Martin Luther
#14. 38. "A wet bird never flies at night." (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)
James C. Dobson
#15. If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.
Meg Collett
#16. Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts
Frederick Lenz
#17. I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
Catherine Deneuve
#18. Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.
Frederick Lenz
#19. We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take.
Barack Obama
#20. You've got nothing to worry about, beautiful. I'm faithful to the core, a real one-woman man. And it excites the hell out of me to think that you're my one woman.
Jamie Hill
#21. A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.
Robert Jordan
#22. In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.
Tim O'Brien
#23. It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.
Raymond E. Feist
#24. Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.
Sara Humphreys
#25. Alan:I don't know what
they did with all the crusts from the sandwiches. Maybe they put
them out for the birds after everyone had gone home. I hoped so.
It'd be a shame to waste them.
J.L. Merrow
#26. Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.
Kristin Cast
#28. I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
Max Walker
#29. We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis
#30. Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
