Quotes About Battle

What significance could the mythical conflict of angels have to people who daily had to fight for their lives?

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

Is it possible to be born old? Because I certainly feel it sometimes. How can we hope to stand against unstoppable progress; how can we possibly win a war against the forces of science?

Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.

At the far end of the hall she could make out the raised dais where a throne of black oak stood. Its arms had been carved to represent the forelegs of a bear, and its feet into those of a dragon. And above it hung the battle standard of the Icemark: a standing polar bear, lips drawn back in a vicious snarl and claws outstretched.

Keisuke: "It's alright for you to kill someone?" Akira: "As long as they have tags. According to the rules, if there's three people present, it's an official battle. I'm not sure how you're supposed to start it, though." Keisuke: "So killing people is just a game, huh?" Akira: "It's the only way to survive.

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

The battle is important. Don't tell my death

That's the problem fighting for truth and justice. The battle never ends.

We will battle day and night to pass social security reform.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

I'm an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.