Pick And Choose Your Battles Quotes & Sayings

Oh, Lee, how deep into the rabbit hole you have fallen. You're worse than Alice. — Penelope Fletcher

L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility. — Steve Erickson

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You've got to pick your battles, Pen, but then fight to the death for the ones that matter. — Tiffany Schmidt

You know, you pick and choose your battles. — Ryan Lochte

Come on, people. Doesn't anybody remember how to take a big old knife, whack open a pumpkin, scrape out the seeds, and bake it? We can carve a face onto it, but can't draw and quarter it? Are we not a nation known worldwide for our cultural zest for blowing up flesh, on movie and video screens and/or armed conflict? Are we in actual fact too squeamish to stab a large knife into a pumpkin? Wait till our enemies find out. — Barbara Kingsolver

I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey. — Karine Vanasse

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles. — Austin Butler

Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found. — Paul Tremblay

There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator,
praying, begging, pleading, bargaining - anything to make
him protect Xavier. I couldn't have him ripped away from
me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could
survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive
Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I
could not survive without him. — Alexandra Adornetto

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority. — Vladimir Lenin

You look like the vamp who bled the cat. — Kim Harrison

Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity," Ernest continued. "You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value - to the capitalist class. — Jack London

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you've already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you'll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you'll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start. — Seth Godin

I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles. — Faith Prince

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence. — Immanuel Kant

You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box! — Fredrik Backman

Delarosa was trying to save the human race," said Mkele. "Her only crime was that she was willing to go too far in order to do it. We decided, briefly, that we didn't want to go along with her, but look at us: We're hiding in a basement, letting Delarosa fight our battles, seriously considering lettering her deploy a nuclear bomb. We are long past the point where we can pick and choose our morality. We either save our species or we don't."
"Yes," said Tovar, "but I'd prefer it if we were still worth saving by the end of it. — Dan Wells

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. — Trent Reznor

So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it. — Carter Scholz

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything. — Action Bronson

There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. — Jennifer Niven