Quotes About Battle

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

It is a war of nerves and there will be casualties.

Superb athletes fascinate in part because they seem like proxies for ourselves in a metaphorical battle with the eternal: broken records are death-negating acts.

Taken as a whole, the mass of scientific data reveals an essential role for our natural defenses in the battle against cancer.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

One of the most trying experiences an individual can go through is the period of doubt, of soul-searching, to determine whether to fight the battle or fly from it," Nixon wrote in Six Crises. "It is in such a period that almost unbearable tensions build up, tensions that can be relieved only by taking action, one way or the other. And significantly, it is this period of crisis conduct that separates the leaders from the followers.

sitting behind the controls of his Hurricane, taking on a squadron of deadly Messerschmitts, when

Well, you'd better hope I am because the world was built by sociopaths, men willing to send a million innocent boys into battle to be chopped to screaming giblets, all so a banner can be raised over another piece of land with houses and markets and roads soon after.

If you had to choose, and if you were not allowed to see either ahead of time and had no other information to go on, would you rather fight Mindcrow or Gonadulus?

evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.

Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half. (1998)

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round, While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?

Once more into the fray...Into the last good fight I'll ever know.Live and die on this day...Live and die on this day...

I can tell about one who didn't win. And it didn't matter.Because his destiny was battle, Not the victory. He was born to travel, Not to find destination. He lived to live, Not to make a home.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

The sun is rising with a bright golden glittering glint. Let us wake up to enjoy the joyful battles of light and darkness.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.