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Quotes About Battle

I am at war - at war with the ants
~ Unknown
Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.
~ Unknown
don't want to see, you must decide if the battle is worth your time and effort. In your life, only you can decide what is worth going to battle for, keeping in mind what may be sacrificed in the process.
~ Nick Saban
A stray round blasted into her right wing
~ Nick Webb
A battle, shield wall to shield wall. Linden wood to linden wood. She imagined meeting a man the size of Forthere, huge with battle rage, stinking with it; dogs dripping and snarling at her legs, her arms. Sharp swords cleaving down, splintering shields, crushing skulls, slicing off faces. Men sworn to follow their lord or die. Victory or death, no middle ground.
~ Nicola Griffith
They would write songs of what followed: the horses dancing; the spears flickering like swords, faster than the eye could see; Llanza's perfect seat; Peretur's grace, lithe as a cat; the sweat running down their mounts' flanks. The crack of Llanza's spear as it split.
~ Nicola Griffith
Under the ferocity Fursey heard the howling loneliness. But ferocity was winning.
~ Nicola Griffith
His eyes were as liquid as run honey, dark clover honey, and his hair was a rich brown with bronze sun straks, but his beard, like his eyebrows, was black. His face and hands were the colour of walnut, or perhaps elm bark, but lighter where his sleeves rose above his wrists. He was not thick-boned and heavy-muscled like Cei, but whippy as a hazel rod, and she knew she would not face him lightly in battle.
~ Nicola Griffith
Recordemos que el planeta estaba sumido en plena Guerra Fría y la batalla entre el mundo libre y el totalitarismo marxista abarcaba obviamente el continente americano, en donde el país trasandino por su posicionamiento geopolítico era una de las prioridades de la Unión Soviética.
~ Unknown
this famous battle Rothschild had an agent who, as soon as victory was certain, set off for London and informed Rothschild. Rothschild started buying every British government share he could before anyone else heard the news. When they did, of course, the shares rocketed and Rothschild sold at a huge profit.
~ Unknown
American artillery was now taking its toll on Rommel's Panzers.
~ Unknown
Fifty-two German tanks were completely destroyed, while the British lost none at all and only one squadron was engaged in the fighting.
~ Unknown
Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps.
~ Unknown
And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
~ Nikki Giovanni
Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.
~ Nikki Sixx
They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
Constantine, it must be remembered, was not a well-educated man. In his anxiety before the battle of the Milvian Bridge he actually thought he could strike a bargain with God. This gamble on Christianity apparently led to his victory
~ Unknown
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment [Verhexung] of our intelligence by means of language.
~ Norman O. Brown
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Tired of these endless games, Time to end the darkened day To raise the sword To kill the light Because there is no reason left to fight...
~ Unknown
For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.
~ Odell Shepard
My body tensed, I was ready to do battle. My head began to spin, and a dismal wailing rose in my ears, a roar, as if from over the horizon an army of thousands was approaching – voices, the clank of iron, the creak of wheels in the distance. Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
We have met the enemy, and they are ours.
~ Oliver Hazard Perry