Quotes About Battle

The battle of the big belly is fought using the weapons of dietary changes, exercise, and most importantly, discipline.

Yet there is no acceptance to be found in my heart. This death is unfair. Ignoble, and not justifiable by any measure of rationale. No battle is worth this. No ideals, no political cause, and no bounty. Being here is a mistake. Dying is a mistake. Twenty-two years has not been enough. "--Luke, a Civil War soldier

The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when one slight adaptation of a species proved more successful than another in the battle: a process which he named 'natural selection'. There was nothing benevolent about the providence which watched over the process. Reason was served her notice as the handmaid of Christian revelation.

Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.

British antiaircraft units stationed at the field, and that was the first time I'd ever seen any real emotion from a limey. They actually had tears in their eyes. You could see that they felt like hell standing there watching us go into battle even though

My only concern was whether or not I would let my men down once we entered combat. As a fighting company the men were primed and ready to go, and we fully intended that we were either going to win the ensuing battle or be killed.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

The soldier of Christ is obligated to fight against sin and error. His battle against the Antichrist is prompted by his loved for Christ, and for the salvation of souls. He fights this battle for the salvation of those who have gone astray. His attitude is one of true love. But those who flee from the inevitable battle, and treat irenically those who have gone astray, obfuscating their error and playing down their revolt against God, are, fundamentally, victims of egoism and complacency.

overwhelmed the Scots. The Prince's lack of skill as a commander

To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," he said.

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

The forces of darkness in the world today threaten the very foundations of human civilization, but they are no match for the power of the rosary.

Major: you have the honor to report that the numbers of men now under your command qualifies you for promotion to colonel. But you ask me to believe that your regiments assaulted Rebel forces in a pitched battle of over two hours duration, all the while steadily employing the heavy field pieces recently shipped to you, without one single battle death on either side . Sir, that is not warfare. That is fraternization with the enemy !

Fair and good [kalòn … agathòn] the man who falls fighting in the front rank, dying for the fatherland.

He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

To live is to war with trolls.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.