Quotes About Battle

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.

We're in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we're in the vanguard of waiting.

dans tout combat entre le fanatisme et le sens commun, ce dernier a rarement le dessus.

Insomnia is an enemy that attacks in many forms. Sometimes it shows up the moment I get into bed and lingers for a couple of hours. Other nights, it stays away until about 5 a.m. and then butts in and hangs around until twenty minutes before the alarm is due to go off. It's a full-time job, battling the fecker.

There never was a war that was not inward.

I must fight Til I have conquered In myself what causes war

The real war is not without, but within: between ego-based fear and spirit-based love.

There is a genius for impoverishment always at work in the world. And it has its way, as if its proceedings were not only necessary but even sensible. Its rationale, its battle cry, is Competition

V?riešiem sekss vajadz?gs, lai sagatavotos doties kauj? ar pašapzi?u. Sieviet?m sekss vajadz?gs zaud?juma b?du remd?šanai vai k? da?a no uzvaras gandar?juma.

long race with death

going to the mattresses

the AirCav now rode to battle on helicopters, usually Hueys,85 which could carry a full squad; or on the newer, giant twin-engine Chinooks

Tran Thi Thu Van, the writer from Saigon, spent those weeks wandering in the wasteland of the battle trying to stay alive. She would later record scene after scene of horror in her book Mourning Headband for Hue.

When the New York Times confirmed the truth about Hue on its front page, word was definitely out: trapped marines . . . smoking city . . . five battalions of enemy troops. A huge fight was shaping up inside the old fortress. Suddenly nearly every reporter in the country was trying to get to Hue.

the final toll of the Battle of Hue numbers well over ten thousand, making it by far the bloodiest of the Vietnam War.

but the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.

the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.

The ratio of men killed in battle is becoming more favorable to our side. From a little better than two to one last January, the ratio has climbed to more than six to one in favor of our side."20 Westy argued that the ratio so heavily favored allied forces that in time the mounting toll would buckle Hanoi's resolve.