Quotes About Battle

The war is always going badly.

W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

The Leucrotta looked appraisingly at Leander for a long while. "My skin, you say? I had not heard that it had any medicinal value, but if the Witch needs it, I must, as a gentleman and a monster, yield to her." Both the Prince and the King started, shocked at the suggestion. "But we must have a battle!" insisted the Prince. "Don't be ridiculous, boy. I would eviscerate you within a minute. Just take the skin and scurry back.

Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.

The Great Bitch is the deadly female, a worthy opponent for the omnipotent hero to exercise his powers upon and through. She is desirous, greedy, clever, dishonest, and two jumps ahead all the time. The hero may either have her on his side and like a lion-tamer sool her on to his enemies, or he may have to battle for his life at her hands.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

Caleb watched Ardon leave. Then he turned and walked back toward his tent. He studied the people as he walked through the camp, especially the men. I wonder if this new generation will be any more faithful to God than the ones who died in the wilderness. He was not the man of prayer Joshua was. Still, he had faith in God like a rock. "God," he said, "we're going to need you. We can't do it alone, so be our helper in this battle that's shaping up.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing battle, they will finalize it rather than have it wrenched from them. Insanity wouldn't permit that type of clarity.

Ngigi did not seem in the least surprised to find I was a doctor, and I remembered that there were women witch doctor as well as men. At least here I would have no battle to fight.

Rauve, you son of a..."  Pagan growled in disapproval, his words punctuated by hacks of his sword. "Does...no one...heed my...commands?"  His

You are brave if you entered the battle. Don 't let your bravery wane during the battle. Don 't just stay brave, become braver.

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.

When Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to the believers as "the Helper," the text uses the Greek word paraclete, which, as John Sandford has explained, is an ancient warrior's term. Greek soldiers went to battle in pairs, so when the enemy attacked they could draw together back to back, covering each other's blind side. Your battle partner was called your paraclete.6

For sooner or later, no matter what fantastic long-range weapons you mounted, the ground itself had to be taken —and for that there had never been anything but the man in the ranks.

Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.

If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you're not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you've trapped yourself inside with them.