Quotes About Battle

Strife is food that feeds evil spirits.

the first sea battle in English history took place off Sandwich, in Kent, when the invaders were rebuffed.

amassed at Wenden and, unless they

the point is that every fight is worth fighting. Even the hopeless ones.

offensive à l'outrance'.

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME will always be controversial.

another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once.

war between paralyzed telepaths.

and dust, the armored spearhead

But theres only so much a player can absorb when his body is pulsing with adrenaline. This is not a good time for deep left brain discussion. It's the moment to calm the player's minds and strengthen their spiritual connection with one another before they head into battle.

Every year Tex, who loved inspirational sayings, would recite to the team his favorite proverb about the importance of learning the details: For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a message the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Dog Soldier Raid at New Scandinavia—1869

even killed a man, though it had been more by accident than skill. But he was an ineffectual warrior. In battle the valves of his heart were turned full open, and his strength poured out.

Burton struggled to get up onto his feet. Nobody, not even God, was going to punch Richard Burton in the ribs and get away without a battle.

It's all a big racket; they're playing it on themselves. I mean, a gun goes through a famous battle, like the Meuse-Argonne, and it's the same as if it hadn't, unless you know. It's in here.' He tapped his head. 'In the mind, not the gun.

If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

la historia de la vida humana ha consistido en una lucha entre la sabiduría y la estupidez.

He was the lover of a witch from the Karelia region, briefly, but she was killed in battle—She spoiled me for women younger'n three hundred; but he had plenty of lovers all the same.

arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death.

with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •

He said, Lyra, gal, it won't be long now. When you see that old bear, you tell him Lee went out fighting. And when the battle's over, there'll be all the time in the world to drift along the wind and find the atoms that used to be Hester, and my mother in the sagelands, and my sweethearts – all my sweethearts... Lyra, child, you rest when this is done, you hear? Life is good, and death is over...

Das Alter ist kein Kampf; es ist ein Massaker.

Nadir we, youth born, axe wielders, blood letters, victors still.