Quotes About Battle

The good jihad. It sounds like an oxymoron, until you look in your Bible at 2 Timothy 4:7. Paul says, "I have fought the good fight." In the Arabic translation those last three words are rendered "the good jihad." We

Every adventure undertaken, every prophecy spoken or sung, every dangerous road pointed to this simple truth - a battle between good and evil rages every day.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing." —Audre Lorde

Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the youngest of hearts grows old.

We've been looking for the enemy for several days now. We've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.

When I entered the service, the regulations stated that the object of all military training is "success in battle." This short sentence has been rewritten on three pages and I defy anyone to read it over three or more times and then explain what the object of military training is.

The definition of military training is success in battle. In my opinion that is the only objective of military training. It wouldn't make any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. I've believed that ever since I've been a Marine.

And doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States Whaling Voyage by One Ishmael Bloody Battle in Affghanistan

He said no; only upon one memorable occasion. It was after a great feast given by his father the king on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.

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.

it would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle with the great monster of the deep. Any man may kill a snake, but only a Perseus, a St. George, a Coffin, have the heart in them to march boldly up to a whale.

A te vengo, balena che tutto distruggi ma non vinci: fino all'ultimo lotto con te; dal cuore dell'inferno ti trafiggo; in nome dell'odio, vomito a te l'ultimo mio respiro.

BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN.

The Kwajalein invasion, the first of these

Just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows. He replied Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade.

Here they resisted to the last, with their swords if they had them, and if not, with their hands and teeth

Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?

Either we of the faith shall become a small persecuted, neglected island amid mankind, or we shall be able to life up at the end of the struggle the old battle cry, "Christus Imperat!

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.