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Quotes About Battle

He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line "The land was ours before we were the land's." What a scandal that would be, America's best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.
~ Jim Harrison
I was cooking my life in a cracked clay pot that was leaking. I had found secrets I didn't deserve to know. When the battle for the mind is finally over it's late June, green and raining.
~ Jim Harrison
Loki was hurling fire runes and holding a running commentary on her battle, to which no one but him was listening to. 'And Thor gets in behind Frey and - WHAM! BOOM! That's got to hurt. And Loki SCORES! This boy's on FIRE!
~ Joanne Harris
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
~ Robert Browning
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
~ Louis Althusser
My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.
~ Unknown
When life gets tough, it gives you the strength to struggle for success. Life is all about struggle who win the battle of life is the champion.
~ Unknown
Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He winced. I had hit him where it hurt, in the solar plexus of his conscience, where everyone who was an idealist was vulnerable. Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The question was one of commitment.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Desarmar a un idealista era fácil. Solamente hacía falta preguntarle por qué no estaba en el frente de la batalla concreta que hubiera elegido.»
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He winced. I had hit him where it hurt, in the solar plexus of his conscience, where everyone who was an idealist was vulnerable. Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Dying in a battle is much better then living after being rejected on love, because one time death is much better then dying every day"
~ Unknown
It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.
~ Vince Flynn
the purpose is to alert ourselves to the fact that the forces of hell are constantly attacking the church from many sides, and that these attacks assume many different forms.
~ Unknown
The preaching of the gospel compels men to choose a side, or rather, it uncovers which side they are on. As we proclaim the Lord Jesus, the family of Satan arises in opposition, but the family of Christ awakes to faith and righteousness, to take up spiritual weapons, and to join the fight for the glory of God.
~ Unknown
As David said to Goliath, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied" (1 Samuel 17:45).
~ Unknown
It was at this time that he formulated a basic principle for the conduct of the Battle of Britain: that it was better to spoil the aim of many German aircraft than to shoot down a few of them.2
~ Unknown
And yet I go on; if we are tired isn't it then because we have already walked a long way, and if it is true that man has his battle to fight on earth, is not then the feeling of weariness and the burning of the head a sign that we have been struggling? When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing we fight a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle!
~ Virgil
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
~ Virgil
Of arms and the man I sing.
~ Virgil
To hold a pen is to be at war.
~ Voltaire
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
~ Voltaire
The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.
~ W. Clement Stone