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Quotes About Battle

I hammered and forged myself upon the anvil of battle and conquest. All that I have achieved in the last two centuries will be given away to weak men and women who were not here to shed their blood with us in the dark places of the galaxy. Where is the justice in that? Lesser men will rule what I have conquered, but what will be my reward once the fighting is done?
~ Graham McNeill
In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.
~ Grant Morrison
In any battle, out of every hundred men, ten shouldn't be there. Eighty are just targets. Nine are good soldiers, and we're lucky to have them. But one, that one is a warrior, and will bring the others home.
~ Greg Iles
The French: Our national flag is the tricolor; our battle flag a single color: white.
~ Gregg Loomis
Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition
~ Gregory Benford
There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There is no man, and no place, without war.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.' 'I … I hope there's more to it than that, brother. But, shit, maybe you're right.
~ Gregory David Roberts
One of the agonising truths for a battle medic is that you pray as hard and almost as often for men to die as you pray for them to live.
~ Gregory David Roberts
No, I didn't break a world record. No, I didn't win by a huge margin. But it's how you do in the battle. I've taken my place in history and I'm very proud of that.
~ Denise Lewis
I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.
~ Peter Jackson
Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.
~ Martin McGuinness
If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they'd eat first.
~ Tristan Thompson
We're in a world war.
~ Michael T. Flynn
I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.'
~ Tom Sizemore
My father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge.
~ Chuck Norris
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.
~ Mark Esper
The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
~ Jose Mujica
It doesn't matter which city, which country my opponent is from - and I am not worried about fighting in Moscow.
~ Oleksandr Usyk
Everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others.
~ John Daly
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
~ James Longstreet
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
~ Patrick McGoohan
I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and battle - and that's very exhausting. Now, power is more about certainty and stillness and realizing that the infrastructures that we gather around and worship are the least powerful things.
~ Carrie Brownstein