Quotes About Battle

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

The last night of love, the first night of war

When a lobster that has just lost a battle is exposed to serotonin, it will stretch itself out, advance even on former victors, and fight longer and harder.9 The drugs prescribed to depressed human beings, which are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, have much the same chemical and behavioural effect. In one of the more staggering demonstrations of the evolutionary continuity of life on Earth, Prozac even cheers up lobsters.

Now, an idea is not the same thing as a fact. A fact is something that is dead, in and of itself. It has no consciousness, no will to power, no motivation, no action. There are billions of dead facts. The internet is a graveyard of dead facts. But an idea that grips a person is alive. It wants to express itself, to live in the world. It is for this reason that the depth psychologists—Freud and Jung paramount among them—insisted that the human psyche was a battleground for ideas.

Salvo una batalla perdida, no hay nada más deprimente que una batalla ganada».

Se acostó a soñar despierto con Bailén. El lodo y la sangre. Las risotadas y las chanzas. Las descargas cerradas. Los soldados que empuñaban carabinas y calaban bayonetas. Los chasquidos. Las balas que pasaban silbando. Los fusileros intoxicados de pólvora que mordían el cartucho, empujaban el proyectil con la baqueta, se ponían los mosquetes contra la cara y disparaban. Los bordados y los cordones. Las fogatas y las antorchas. La miseria. El dolor. Los muertos.

fue una de las raras batallas en que los muertos victoriosos tienen peor entierro que los vencidos

Sit here, deliberating in cold debates, If we should sacrifice our lives to honour, Or wear them out in servitude and chains. Rouse up, for shame! our brothers of Pharsalia Point at their wounds, and cry aloud—To battle! 40 Great Pompey's shade2 complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unrevenged amongst us!

Only one of us will need a boat when this combat is ended

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

This world is a military expedition, an eternal combat. No doubt all chose who fought courageously in a battle are worthy of praise, but also there is no doubt that the greatest glory goes to the one who returns wounded.

Cowardice and courage are just labels—words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That

Grimalkin was never meant to die in a warm bed - she should have met her end in battle, as a warrior.

each place I fight is home. My blades have a home too - in the hearts of my enemies.

when you face many enemies, hurt the strongest first.

In the heat of battle, all things are uncertain.

tens of thousands of women to spinsterhood. In the American Expeditionary Forces, the 26,000 men killed in the Meuse-Argonne represented the greatest loss in a single battle to that point in the nation's history.

The concussive force of grenades rattled men's brains to the point of madness.

Heller," he called after me. "I don't know what you have up your sleeve, but I suggest you not bother. Like Sun Tzu said: 'All battles are won or lost before they're fought.' " "He never said it," I pointed out. "That's from the movie Wall Street." "Doesn't make it wrong." "Well," I said. "I guess we'll see.