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Quotes About Battle

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
~ Patricia Briggs
Evil must always be fought.
~ Patricia Briggs
This world has need of song and sword.
~ Patricia Briggs
They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song "Ar Lan y Môr." And if there was something odd about returning from battle singing about lilies, rosemary, rocks, and—for some reason he'd never fathomed—eggs, of all things, by the sea, well, then the three of them made it sound pretty good and only he and Beauclaire knew Welsh.
~ Patricia Briggs
It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.
~ Patricia Briggs
We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened me more than any battle ever could.
~ Patricia Briggs
Dear God...Please don't let me end up in a wheelchair again. No broken bones would be a happy bonus, but I'm not expecting you to make up for my stupidity quite so completely...Whatever happens, you don't let that vampire make it out of here still moving. If he wins, it will be bad news. Any help you can give us will be appreciated. Amen.
~ Patricia Briggs
All honor to him, then...To die killing one of the dark-bound evils is not a bad thing, Mercy.
~ Patricia Briggs
was in a battle for my soul, and the evil spirit that was trying to possess me has been, very slowly, winning." He smiled broadly, raised his glass at Anna, and said, "Until today.
~ Patricia Briggs
Amidala, Panaka, and about half the troops climbed through; the others, and the Queen's handmaidens, stayed in the hall to hold off the battle droids. The
~ Patricia C. Wrede
But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?
~ Unknown
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power…. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~ Patrick Henry
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~ Patrick Henry
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
~ Patrick Henry
Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
~ Patrick Henry
It was later released that after his death, Dahmer's brain was examined at the request of his parents. Nothing abnormal was found. Later, Lionel and Joyce Dahmer fought a court battle over the brain, with Lionel coming out the victor. The brain was cremated along with the rest of Dahmer's remains.
~ Unknown
Victory in war is made up of simple things. But in war, even the simplest things are hard.
~ Unknown
You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
~ Patrick Ness
You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say. "Ah, philosophy," he smiles. "I didn't know you had it in you.
~ Patrick Ness
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
~ Patrick Ness
You said war should never be personal, but that's all it's ever been for me.
~ Patrick Ness
You felt the excitement when we chased them up the hill," the Mayor's saying. "I saw it. It blazed through your Noise like a fire. Every man in the army felt the same thing. You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
~ Patrick Ness
Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War.
~ Patrick Ness
War makes monsters of men," I say, quoting Ben from that night in the weird place where New World buried its dead. "And women," Mistress Coyle says.
~ Patrick Ness