This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Pessimism never won any battle.
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.