Quotes About Battle

Der Soldat wird ausgehoben, gekleidet, bewaffnet, geübt, er schläft, ißt, trinkt und marschiert, alles nur, um an rechter Stelle und zu rechter Zeit zu fechten.

Es ist also nach unserer Einteilung die Taktik die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Streitkräfte im Gefecht, die Strategie die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Gefechte zum Zweck des Krieges.

About this unpleasant situation Boltzmann wrote: "I hate this continuous secret battle; I know much better how to integrate than how to intrigue.

It was impossible to fight any battle without purpose. It was your anchor. Your focus. The place you could fasten everything you had to remember.

Doesn't everyone have at least two opposing natures warring inside them?

Consciousness is the monster and it wins.

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

What you'll have of me after I journey to that great Death Star in the sky is an extremely accomplished daughter, a few books, and a picture of a stern-looking girl wearing some kind of metal bikini lounging on a giant drooling squid, behind a newscaster informing you of the passing of Princess Leia after a long battle with her head.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be someplace else.

You died in the end, but you fought first.

To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded and sent matchstick soldiers fleeing, but a dragon that breathed hot fire on his naked heart.

He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. Inside him, a lack of willpower and a colossal tension battled it out. He felt both weak and furious at the same time. He went around with his fists clenched, ready to fight, yet what he wanted most of all was to hold and be held.

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Never wound a foe when you can kill him

I'm named Bella," the girl told Gendry. "For the battle. I bet I could ring your bell, too. You want to?" "No," he said gruffly. "I bet you do." She ran a hand along his arm. "I don't cost nothing to friends of Thoros and the lighting lord." " No , I said." Gendry rose abruptly and stalked away from the table out into the night. Bella turn to Arya. "Don't he like girls?" Arya shrugged. "He's just stupid. He likes to polish helmets and beat on swords with hammers.

Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died .

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

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

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.