Quotes About Skirmish

#1. Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.

Dick Morris

#2. She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.

Gregory Maguire

#3. In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Marcus Buckingham

#4. The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

Che Guevara

#5. If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

Evelyn Waugh

#6. London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

China Mieville

#7. Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy ... Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Audie Murphy

#8. Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.

Stuart Hill

#9. There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Andrew Cuomo

#10. It was a little skirmish across a century.

Margery Allingham

#11. How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.

Anthony Doerr

#12. Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head - a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

James Longstreet

#14. Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

Robert Galbraith

#15. Bongo's sobs are hurled out
like paintballs from a skirmish gun
until the force diminishes
into a trickle of sobs
that wind up the exorcism.

Emma Cameron

#16. After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.

Pat Riley

#17. On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Victor LaValle

#18. Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Graves

#19. Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

Warren Farrell

#20. Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD ... over and over again.

Peter Diamandis

#21. Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this ... skirmish.

Brian Regan

#22. Fact been no more than a small skirmish between the MacKenzies and a detachment of English troops on their way to join the main body of the army. Said army was even now assembling

Diana Gabaldon

#23. Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Robin Hobb

#24. Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

Abby May Alcott

#25. Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

Ann Coulter

#26. I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

D. A. Pennebaker

#27. Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

Marlena De Blasi

#28. Big skirmishes over small misunderstanding make things bad in a relationship.

Girdhar Joshi

#29. Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Andy Stanley

#30. Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Joan Armatrading