Quotes About Battle

When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil War sword in one hand, a dagger in the other. Behind his Joe Friday glasses, his eyes were lit like torches, and they flicked over for a split second. Stay out of this. This one's mine. The shit was done faster than you can say, Ninja Dad . Blay's father went Ginsu on the slayer, carving the thing up like a turkey, then stabbing it back to the Omega.

Holy shit . . . They'd joined the war.

Dear God. Her eyes didn't match the gentle lilt of her voice at all. They belonged to a warrior. Gunmetal gray, surrounded by lashes the color of her hair, they were grave, serious, reminding him of males who had fought and survived battle. They were staggeringly beautiful in their strength.

Fighting for your life is a fucking ball. As long as you didn't get slaughtered.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

O war! thou son of Hell!

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

The brazen throat of war.

The war is in our souls.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

Fight to the last gasp.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.