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Quotes About Battle

You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.
~ Ilona Andrews
Andrea, in less than twelve hours, Atlanta will be full of demons. They will kill, feed, and release more demons. What emergency is more important than this one? She hesitated. I'm not supposed to disclose this. There's a man. His name is Roland... I almost punched the wall. What is he doing that's so damn crucial? What, is he building another tower? It will fall like all his other ones. Or did his eye finally grow back and he decided to have a battle to celebrate?
~ Ilona Andrews
Let's play who can be a better killer. My sword and I love this game.
~ Ilona Andrews
Football is a wargame of land acquisition.
~ Ilona Andrews
Bring your army, little god! My sword is hungry!
~ Ilona Andrews
Young people are so brave when they go to fight.
~ Emmanuel Jal
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
~ Ted Dekker
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
~ Rudyard Kipling
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.
~ Tara Stiles
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
~ Billy Campbell
At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?
~ Richard Branson
I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
~ Tom Rachman
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
~ James Longstreet
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
~ John Major
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
~ LeRoy Neiman
As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.
~ Shelby Steele
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
~ John Strachan
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
~ Will Rogers
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
~ Pierre Corneille
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
~ Eli Roth
Stone, sea, forest, city—and every creature that ever lived—all share the same struggle. Being resists unbeing. Order wars against the chaos of dissolution, of disorder.
~ Steven Erikson
we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others. It
~ Steven Erikson