logo

Quotes About Battle

This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.
~ Jeremy Powell
A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
~ Niall Ferguson
Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.
~ Paulo Coelho
We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
~ Francois Hollande
He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.
~ Anacreon
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
~ David Bowie
I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.
~ Doc Brown
I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.
~ Rupert Lowe
Iran is the greatest national security threat America faces. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this.
~ Mitt Romney
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
~ Mark Twain
Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
~ Mark Twain
He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.
~ Mark Twain
Shall I be car-ri-ed toe the skies, on flow'ry beds of ease, Whilst others fight to win the prize, and sail thro' blood-y seas? He
~ Mark Twain
Shall I be car-ri-ed toe the skies, on flow'ry beds of ease, Whilst others fight to win the prize, and sail thro' blood-y
~ Mark Twain
To the rear, sir—he's lost his leg!
~ Mark Twain
laid my lance in rest and waited, with my heart beating, till the iron wave was just ready to break over me, then spouted a column of white smoke through the bars of my helmet.
~ Mark Twain
Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The Times correspondent who reported on the battle commented: 'The estimation of Austrian losses is somewhat difficult as many of the fallen were not discovered until the penetrating odour of decomposed humanity disclosed the presence of bodies in wood or unharvested field.
~ Martin Gilbert
death struggle had been a grievous one. On
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. Mind, I don't say there was anything unfair, but so it was.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting," he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only when they both have equal confidence.
~ Arthur Golden
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
~ Arthur Miller
The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.
~ Arthur Nicholson
The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer