Quotes About Battle

As Richard mounted his horse to follow, some of his Household protested that he must not wear into battle the helmet with the golden crown, for it would mark him as the prime target for the enemy. Quietly Richard replied that he would live, and die, King of England.

For a moment, caught up in the aftereffects of his vision, Vader wondered what it would be like to face his Master in battle, to take his small, frail body in his hands, lift it from the ground, and…

Consequently, when I became Minister of National Defence for Canada in 1963, one of my first actions was to visit our troops in Europe in order to assess their battle readiness.

The seeds of the Fourth Reich were sewn before the smoke and dust of battle had settled following Victory in Europe, May 8, 1945. They were sewn in the U.S. by "Operation Paperclip" which, no doubt, was well-intentioned on the part of its instigators.

The life of man upon the earth is a warfare. Job 7:1 (Douay-Rheims) A

Your adversary is the Devil, with his army of demons. Your battle with him rages not only all around you, but also within you, a fierce conflict for control of your mind, your heart, and your ultimate destiny.

You're dealing with a deadly disease. There is no way you're going to be able to work and fight this battle at the same time.

What if two equal lions battle for territory, or for a mate?" "They'll each size up the other, testing the odds. A lion is more cautious on equal footing, but even then he won't back down. He has no fear, you see, not as we understand it. He can only be exactly what he is, what his nature dictates, and nothing else.

Lookin' at ye is like baskin' in the summer sun after a long, cold winter. 'Tis like seein' home after a battle that's left ye empty and alone." He kissed her mouth, her nose, her eyes. "I dinna' know how 'tis possible, but each time I see ye, ye grow more beautiful to me.

Robert used to tell me it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero

it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero. Kate speaking to Callum in LAIRD OF THE MIST

Halliwell had always hated waiting, whether it was for battle or for the dentist.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Siamo noi che, perduti in tempestose visioni, conduciamo una vana lotta contro gli spettri, e in una folle trance con il coltello dello spirito colpiamo, invulnerabili, nulla.

P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

True Gospel ministry is not a party, but a battle for souls.

Satan cannot compare to God, and he never will.

I learned that if the battle is great, the blessing will be greater!

Southwark therefore became a setting for a long-running battle between the highest concentration of hedonists in he country, and a movement whose adherents believed that if you tapped your foot to music, you might as well just go the whole hog, rename yourself Beelzebub and have sexual intercourse with the corpse of a recently sacrificed goat.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is... the viscously long battle between world views. And eventually -Finally- no matter how much it may hurt, Truth wins out. Every. Damn. Time.