Quotes About Battle

Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor.

A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.

the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble. The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground was wet.

La guerre, c'est la guerre des hommes; la paix c'est la guerre des idées.

A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won't be ten cartridges in the barricade.

Reeking blood, overcrowded cemeteries, weeping mothers—these are formidable plaintiffs. When the earth is suffering from a surcharge, there are mysterious moanings from the deeps that the heavens hear. Napoleon had been impeached before the Infinite, and his fall was decreed. He annoyed God. Waterloo is not a battle; it is the changing face of the universe.

To paint a battle requires those mighty artists with chaos in their brush

The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.

All war is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it.

Quel champ de bataille que l'homme ! Nous sommes livrés à ces dieux, à ces monstres, à ces géants, nos pensées.

Todavía perdura este patio la tormenta del combate; es visible el espanto; las convulsiones de la refriega se han quedado petrificadas en ese lugar; los seres están vivos, y luego muertos; fue ayer. Las paredes agonizan, las piedras se caen, las brechas vocean; los agujeros son llagas; los árboles inclinados y estremecidos parecen esforzarse por escapar.

Let us die facing out foes, make them bleed while we can.

An undercurrent of war was rumbling within her.

Providencia sólo necesitó un poco de lluvia y una nube que cruzó por el cielo a contrapelo de la estación y bastó para que se derrumbase un mundo. La batalla de Waterloo, y esto es lo que le dio a Blücher el tiempo necesario para llegar, no pudo empezar hasta las once y media. ¿Por qué? Porque el suelo estaba mojado. Hubo que esperar a que se endureciese un poco para que pudiera maniobrar la artillería.

I'm not a brave woman." "And yet here you are, standing at the edge of battle.

Each side was sincerely convinced that it was carrying out God's orders. In the North and the South, soldiers and ministers and civilians believed and said again and again, "God is on our side." Sermons on both sides depicted the war as part of the divine plan, a holy battle on the way to Armageddon and Christ's reign.

En ocasiones simplemente haber peleado es importante. Incluso aunque no ganes.

As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men . . . who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. (2 Chronicles 20:22) Oh, if only we would worry less about our problems and sing and praise more!

The past is a losing battle that we can´t demand rematches.

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is: 'To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum time.

The Battle of the Bulge is sometimes characterized as Hitler's final desperate gamble, the last straw at which he grabbed. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Ardennes offensive was a major and carefully conceived maneuver, not merely to avert the defeat of the Third Reich, but also to administer a decisive blow to the Allies. It was developed long in advance and prepared with exceptional care, respectable ingenuity and considerable investment in human and material resources.

Those seraphim who escaped into the neighbor world Eretz managed to hold the portal closed, and they held it to this day, pouring their strength into shoring up their sky to keep the darkness at bay. A bold young queen in that distant world was even now training a legion of angels and chimaera to battle the darkness and hopefully destroy it. But that's another story.

They wielded blades called /hreshtek, sharp enough to slice a man off his shadow [...}

Alguien dijo una vez: "No luches contra monstruos, no sea que te conviertas en uno de ellos. Y si miras largo tiempo al abismo, el abismo también mirará dentro de ti