Quotes About Battle

bis peccare in bello non licet – in war two blunders aren't permitted.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Whoever Fights Monsters

General Lawton Collins, a top American adviser, said that the United States must put the squeeze on the French to get them off their fannies. Nothing of that sort happened, and the French, hanging on to major cities such as Hanoi and Saigon, foolishly decided in early 1954 to fight a decisive battle at Dienbienphu, a hard-to-defend redoubt deep in rebel-held territory near the border with Laos.49

They've got him! squealed the Duke. Eleven men to one! You may have heard of Galahad, said Hark, whose strength was as the strength of ten. That leaves one man to get him, cried the Duke.

Alas, the pandemic has produced many heroes, like the doctors, nurses, and health care workers who risk--and too often lose--their lives as they battle tirelessly to save others.

The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up.

A battle like this would be intolerable if we didn't have a good time, if we didn't have the joy of battle, if we didn't have a high old time in this fight. Never, never underestimate the power of high hearts when they're combined with principled, unyielding wills.

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

I wish to strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister and the heads of the security agencies in the unrelenting battle for our right to maintain normal daily life in every place in Israel.

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.

A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

One of the reasons this record took so long to come out is that we withstood a lot of pressures and we were unwilling to compromise on a lot of things. 'Tragic Kingdom' is a battleground. It was the outcome of three years of struggle.

I don't want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that's 15-0 but hasn't faced anybody yet.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

There is nothing wrong with fighting, but when you're fighting an uphill battle on an uneven playing field, that's what I don't like.