Quotes About Battle

On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand—a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada.

Who, in Europe, can take this bloodless colonial fracas seriously? On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand—a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada.

According to accepted newspaper clichés, we all go down fighting. The other day I even read that an 18-month-old baby had died after a long battle with cancer. That has become the mandatory phrase for all who expire, disease-ridden. They battled valiantly; they lost. When I finally depart I hope somebody will write, instead, that I died after a long battle with life.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

And the combat ceased for want of combatants.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

We had a motto in my school: 'Men for Others.' And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice.

We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

I like to stand and bang.

For me, in football, everything is possible, and every game is a battle.

I like that defender-versus-striker battle, that challenge.

To be able to battle is very important.

I have anxiety and self-doubt all the time, it's a battle.

It's always a battle to maintain my weight.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

Everything is a battle with this band.

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

You can't get any more epic than a lightsaber battle.

I like to get in a battle I can win.

In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.