Quotes About Battle

most men have a hard time sustaining any sort of devotional life because it has no vital connection to recovering and protecting their strength; it feels about as important as flossing. But if you saw your life as a great battle and you knew you needed time with God for your very survival, you would do it.

Remember—the battle right now is for the narrative; who gets to frame the story for you? Either it will be God, or someone else. If you are "alarmed," something has drawn your attention away from the story of God. Let your fears, anxieties, anger, or rage alert you that you've been taken hostage; stop and get your bearings.

in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land to flourish under freedom and justice.

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

Jak na ka?dej wojnie, prawda jest pierwsz? ofiar?.

In the first weeks of the Battle of Bataan, the Japanese incurred heavy losses as the Americans and Filipinos fought furiously to protect their last stronghold. The Allies incurred far fewer casualties, but their dead could not be replaced. The Japanese had an endless supply of men and armaments, and as the weeks wore on they bombarded their prey with heavy artillery and relentless air attacks.

Only two weeks before, on November 24, her father's forces had been routed by the English at the battle of Solway Moss.

A set-piece battle would almost inevitably end in a crushing defeat for the Scots.

another the French triumph over the Spanish and papal forces at the battle of Ravenna in 1512.

But war was the "sport of kings." And

The result was a crushing defeat for Mary. The battle got off to a disastrous start.

The rivals met in a battle lasting three hours.

All seemed to be over when Bothwell's mainmast was shot away by a cannonball

in 1513, at least the Scots had been scythed down in hand-to-hand combat during a set-piece battle.

cut to pieces at Flodden Field by the father of the very same English commander.

What a splendid little war!

For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin

Droid Gotra, a lethal band of repurposed battle droids with what some considered legitimate grievances against the Empire for having been abandoned after their service during the Clone Wars.

The concert of the guns was ready to resume.

Where long ago a giant battle was; And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass In every place where infant Orpheus slept.

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.

Throughout the wars in history more soldiers had often died of disease than in battle or of their wounds. And epidemic disease had routinely spread from armies to civilian populations.