Quotes About Skirmishes

#1. The word satyagraha implies, Gandhi's passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way.

Susan Cain

#2. With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

Alfred Gough

#3. I'll persuade you to tell me all about what kind of waters you've muddled your feet in, and I'll tell you about the trouble I've led skirmishes into for the past decade.

James L. Rubart

#4. Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would be, perhaps, a few skirmishes on the frontiers, and then everything would be arranged diplomatically.

Marie Van Vorst

#5. Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator

Alex Grey

#6. Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.

Carlos Wallace

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

Girdhar Joshi

#8. The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#9. We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

Calamity Jane

#10. I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

Rory McCann

#11. My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Alex Bosworth

#12. I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Jamaica Kincaid

#13. I had wakened the glow: his features beamed.
'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark!

Charlotte Bronte

#14. When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

Eddie Kaye Thomas

#15. There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

Karl Lagerfeld

#16. The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Henry Miller

#17. Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

Andrew Motion

#18. One cannot proclaim words of love if the heart has yet to be awoken.

Raneem Kayyali