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Quotes About Battle

The change from night to day, the battle that is fought during that change, and the transformation into Jesus, can all feel a little bit apocalyptic. No one said that discipleship was easy.
~ Michael Hardin
It wasn't hard to imagine why this might be—a heightened sensitivity to pain was helpful to survival. "Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle," they wrote.
~ Michael Lewis
And if . . . well, it wasn't long before she'd have an epidemic on her hands. "I knew I had to stay ahead of it," said Charity. "Because ninety percent of the battle is in the first few days. But in the beginning it's always quiet, and you are quietly making decisions, and you're a nut job.
~ Michael Lewis
Arjavh whom, at that moment, I hated with a terrible hatred. I hated him because I must fight this battle and possibly kill him.
~ Michael Moorcock
Because, madam, it is a plain and it is covered in blood. That brown dust is dried blood—blood spilled an age since in some forgotten battle between Law and Chaos, I understand.
~ Michael Moorcock
Then Elric rushed towards the thing, shouting the names which now had no meaning to his surface consciousness. "Balaan—Marthim! Aesma! Alastor! Saebos! Verdelet! Nizilfkm! Haborym! Haborym of the Fires Which Destroy!
~ Michael Moorcock
There is no Truth but that of Eternal struggle.
~ Michael Moorcock
Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.
~ Jenna Morasca
I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
~ J. I. Packer
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.
~ Matt Frewer
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
~ Rod Stewart
It's difficult. I'm a single parent now, and I'm having such a battle to see my kids on a daily basis. It's so hard.
~ Craig Bellamy
I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.
~ Katee Sackhoff
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
~ Simon Van Booy
Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.
~ Chrystia Freeland
Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.
~ Milan Kundera
Love is a battlefield.
~ Pat Benatar
the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.
~ Taylor Swift
Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
sort of wail that leads to fighting with fangs and claws.
~ Beverly Cleary
You set aggressive men on a course of unstructured competition, and they soon become desperate men in unscrupulous battle.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
pyrrhic victory is not, as is sometimes thought, a hollow triumph. It is one won at a huge cost to the victor.
~ Bill Bryson
in a gunfight there is no second place winner
~ Bill Jordan
When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play.
~ Bill Maher