Quotes About Battle

May the Force spare me another victory like this.

They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined

All ships... we are now at battle stations. I expect this will now be known as the Second Battle of Fondor.

MARK DONALDSON WAY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA DAY, TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BATTLE OF EARTH, JANUARY 26, 2553.

The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene, or their medium; but man's greatness consists precisely in his act of becoming such medium. By this act he becomes imbued with a soul and identical with the powers.

The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Life is struggle.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.