Quotes About Battle

What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Motherhood is a constant battle of going to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and staying awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!

I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.

They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.