Quotes About Battle

Any battle-seasoned general will tell you that, even in a small-scale engagement (as this one was), there always comes a point where coherence breaks down, and the narrative flow, and any real sense of how things are going. These matters are re-created by historians later on. The need to re-create the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place.

The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier

The will is the grace to win the battle of life.

No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!

The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

fought the waves of sleep that kept threatening to wash over me.

I had my battles, my deceptions, and my gardens of failure.

The battle for a fast system can be won or lost in specifying the problem it is to solve.

The war between the ideal and the real, between what's right and what's convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

My intent is not to write histories, but only lives. For the noblest deeds do not always show men's virtues and vices; but oftentimes a light occasion, a word, or some sport, makes men's natural dispositions and manners appear more plain than the famous battles won wherein are slain ten thousand men, or the great armies, or cities won by siege or assault.

Porque hay mucha oposición por parte de la carne, el mundo y el diablo

The third-century Persian prophet Mani preached that the visible world is the battleground between the forces of light (absolute goodness) and the forces of darkness (absolute evil).

We are well-armed for battle in a Machiavellian world of reputation manipulation, and one of our most important weapons is the delusion that we are non-combatants.

We overcame because the One God fought on our behalf—the God who

That is the nature of Jewish faith – not security but the courage to live with insecurity, knowing that life is a battle, but that if we do justice and practise compassion, if we honour great and small, the powerful and the powerless alike, if our eyes do not look down to the earth and its seductions but to heaven and its challenges, this small, vulnerable people is capable of great, even astonishing, achievements.

We had a profound time with the terrain and the weather. The terrain was -- I think the terrain equaled the NVA, it was so bad. It was so goddamn bad. By the time you got into a fire fight or something, you were so fucking tired I don't think you cared that much. Don't care. That's the way I see it.