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Quotes About Battle

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
~ Aeschylus
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
~ Aeschylus
She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.
~ Agatha Christie
On the slightly apoplectic countenance of Major Barry various emotions seemed contending for mastery.
~ Agatha Christie
It's possible," said Superintendent Battle. "It's only a hypothesis, but it's possible." "It is a little more than possible, my friend—it is also probable.
~ Agatha Christie
We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
~ Al D'Amato
Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products.
~ Al Ries
John Harvey Kellogg's sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. There
~ Al Roker
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
~ Alan Alda
Tutto nasce dalla paura. Molte battaglie non vengono vinte dalla sola capacità di battersi, ma dal controllo degli istinti degli uomini.
~ Alan Campbell
explosions. The battle was over. "Yes, Mor," Reshmina
~ Alan Gratz
The Yamato will be here soon, and it'll smash those American ships!
~ Alan Gratz
Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.
~ Alan R. Pratt
children to press in against all the assaults of the enemy, that we may lay hold of that which is our inheritance in the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing that every foe we shall ever meet in that battle already has been met and conquered by our Joshua.
~ Alan Redpath
At first the wave of Persia's fleet rolled firm, but next, as our ships jammed into the narrows and no one could help any other and our own bronze teeth bit into our own strakes, whole oarbanks shattered.
~ Alan Shapiro
J.B. Bury once followed Pascal in suggesting that the cause of the foundation of the Roman Empire was the length of Cleopatra's nose: had her features not been perfectly proportioned, Mark Antony would not have been entranced; had he not been entranced he would not have allied himself with Egypt against Octavian; had he not made that alliance, the battle of Actium would not have been fought—and so on.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
I've picked up a few scars during games.
~ Aleksandar Mitrovic
Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.
~ Richard Corliss
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
~ Roone Arledge
When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
~ Phil Collins
It's the type of thing where, if you gonna battle somebody to prove your greatness, you wanna go to somebody that shares that same seat with you.
~ Big Daddy Kane
I have not yet begun to fight!
~ John Paul Jones
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
~ Sallust