Quotes About Battle

I suppose I could blame Jane's death for my poor behavior, but as you'll discover, I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me.

A Scotch, please, Marie,' said Ruth, suddenly deflating and sinking back into the chair. 'I'm sorry. Forgive me.' She sounded to Gamache like someone used to apologising. 'I suppose I could blame Jane's death for my poor behavior, but as you'll discover, I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

And the enemy you'll be fighting is yourself.

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Islam waves two flags. One is white and one is black. Written across both flags in Arabic are the words, There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger. The white flag is called Al-Liwaa and serves as the sign for the leader of the Muslim army and is the flag of the Islamic state. The black flag is called Ar-Raya and is used by the Muslim army. It is also called the flag of jihad, and is carried into battle. One flag is governmental and the other is military.19

One of the finest snipers that ever graced the mud of the Western Front.

I sat down again, wishing I had never been brought here. It was as if I had walked onstage into the middle of a dramatic play, where the other characters are already engaged in a battle that has been going on for some years but which only now, upon my arrival, is allowed to reach a climax.

The real Earth was the place from which men would cheerfully run away to enlist as lowly troopers on a ship like this one, to be cocooned and made to hibernate while light-years ticked away, to be revived and ordered to battle stations against an enemy who might not appear, to return to mindless sleep until the time came for paying-off and discharge – most likely on some other human planet than the race's overcrowded pock-faced homeworld.

Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.

Entonces una mano le entregó algunas hojas del árbol de la vida, que Cristiano tomó y puso en las heridas que había recibido en la batalla, y fue sanado de inmediato.

La habilidad de hacer la pregunta correcta le da la mitad de la victoria en la batalla por encontrar la respuesta".

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

The French have so many civil wars, they can win one now and again.

My head says who cares? But then my heart says you do stupid...

When there is a battle between Ego and Forgiveness, never let the ego win...!!

Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.