Quotes About Battle

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won't be with others, but with yourself.

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.

Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.

President Cleveland, deserting his party, battled alone for the gold standard and the big dollar.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

The battle of Okinawa had ended. Over 12,000 Americans and more than 100,000 Japanese were dead. The American flag flew only 350 miles from Japan.

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After several months of dwindling fortunes, and deserting troops, the final defeat of the Emperor's army took place at the Battle of Helsa, near Bodhgaya, the site of the Buddha's Enlightenment, on 15 January 1761. Here the imperial army was finally cornered by several battalions of red-coated sepoys.

This reprimand did much honour to the English; and it must be acknowledged, to the honour of these strangers, that their conduct in war and battle is worthy of admiration, just as, on the other hand, nothing is more becoming than their behaviour to an enemy, whether in the heat of action, or in the pride of success and victory.54

The battle was fought on the banks of the River Dehva.

success in battle in Afghanistan was rarely decided by straightforward military victory so much as by successfully negotiating a path through the shifting patterns of tribal allegiances.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Murderer of Vuka and Jumadi, see now how Tugars can die.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

The more public thy place, Christian, and the more eminent thy service for God, the more thou must look that the devil will have some more dangerous design or other against thee; and therefore, if every private soldier needs armour against Satan's bullets of temptation, then the commanders and officers who stand in the front of battle much more.